REGISTRATION REQUIRED – All book discussion sign-ups are announced at the beginning of every semester on the Honors listserv

• Book: THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mothar and Max Gladstone
• Discussion Leader: Ms. Jessica Hunt, Assistant Dean and Director of Scholarships, Morehead Honors College
• Date: Wednesday, November 6, 6:00-8:00 (an additional meeting will be held Wednesday, January 8, 6:00-8:00pm)
• Location: Moore Hall 116
• Description: Cowritten by two award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: “Burn before reading.” Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right? According to one reviewer, “This book has it all: treachery and love, lyricism and gritty action, existential crisis and space-opera scope, not to mention time traveling superagents.” Another describes the novel as an “exquisitely crafted tale…Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay…This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.”

Contact: Kora Burton, [email protected].