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Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
(Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.)
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
As the prophet says: Everybody’s building them big ships and boats.
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
One spared life might be worth more to the other side than all the blood that stained Red’s hands today. A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet.
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
But maybe this is how we win, Red. You and me. This is how we win.
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
I was sleepy, in that space between dream and waking when one can’t be certain whether what one’s seeing is real or a storm of nanites rewiring your synapses. (I had to deal with that once. It was unpleasant. I hope you never have to electrocute yourself to burn bugs out of your brain. Then again maybe that’s covered in basic training for your lot.
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So I go. I travel farther and faster and harder than most, and I read, and I write, and I love cities. To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am.