Interesting essay speculating on why some don't like #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar. That's it's poetic--a portrait of feeling revealed in words--rather than a portrait of ideas revealed through action. And yet it relies entirely upon a huge canon of fantastic fiction to be able to sketch those feelings through dense reference and allusion, including many I didn't recognize. And yet very much still a 'fantasy of political agency.'

https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2020/12/02/patterns-guts-style-and-substance-in-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war/ by Jake Casella Brookins.

Soo #bookstodon , if i thought How You Lose The Time War was a fantastic premise but wanted more sci-fi and character development rather than a romance, what books would you recommend?

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