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Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian author, poet, and critic known for her lyrical speculative fiction.
Known for: This Is How You Lose The Time War
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This Is How You Lose The Time War
A science fiction epistolary novel that follows two rival agents, Red and Blue, from opposing futures who fall in love through a series of letters exchanged across time and space. Their correspondence unfolds amid a war fought through centuries, blending poetic prose with themes of love, destiny, and the nature of conflict.
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The Time War: Agency and Garden
The war is omnipresent, yet abstract. On one side stands the Agency, cold and mechanical—its soldiers optimized, upgraded, and obedient. It represents progress as conquest, order born from machinery and hierarchy. On the other side is the Garden, a living intelligence, sprawling and organic, where a...
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Red: The Mechanized Blade
Red embodies the precision of her origin. She is disciplined, engineered to efficiency, a soldier whose body and mind are instruments of her superiors’ will. She’s a product of a system where sentiment is weakness and obedience the only virtue. When she moves through history, she leaves behind invis...
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Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian author, poet, and critic known for her lyrical speculative fiction.
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