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Amal El-Mohtar

Teoksen This Is How You Lose the Time War tekijä

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Amal El-Mohtar won the Locus Awards 2015 award in the Short Story category with her title The Truth About Owls, which is featured in the anthology Kaleidoscope. (Bowker Author Biography)

Sisältää nimet: Amal El-Motar, Amal El-Mohtar

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Associated Works

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The Mammoth Book of Steampunk (2012) — Avustaja — 225 kappaletta
The New Voices of Fantasy (2017) — Avustaja — 173 kappaletta
The Mythic Dream (2019) — Avustaja — 167 kappaletta
Glitter & Mayhem (2013) — Avustaja — 152 kappaletta
Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project (2020) — Avustaja — 151 kappaletta
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (2011) — Avustaja — 151 kappaletta
Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution (2012) — Avustaja — 150 kappaletta
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 (2013) — Avustaja — 117 kappaletta
Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014) — Avustaja — 116 kappaletta
The New Voices of Science Fiction (2019) — Avustaja — 106 kappaletta
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore (2017) — Avustaja — 95 kappaletta
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (2012) — Avustaja — 66 kappaletta
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 2: January/February 2015 (2015) — Avustaja — 54 kappaletta
The Best of Uncanny (2019) — Contributor / Narrator — 54 kappaletta
Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1 (2016) — Avustaja — 52 kappaletta
Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (2018) — Avustaja — 48 kappaletta
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy (2021) — Avustaja — 44 kappaletta
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) — Avustaja — 39 kappaletta
An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables (2016) — Avustaja — 30 kappaletta
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017 Edition (2017) — Avustaja — 26 kappaletta
Uncanny Magazine Issue 1: November/December 2014 (2014) — Avustaja — 26 kappaletta
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Apex Magazine 29 (October 2011) (2011) 3 kappaletta
BSFA Awards 2019 (2020) — Tekijä — 2 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Virallinen nimi
El-Mohtar, Amal
Syntymäaika
1984-12-13
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Canada
Syntymäpaikka
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Rhysling (2009)
Rhysling (2011)
Agentti
DongWon Song (HMLA)

Jäseniä

Kirja-arvosteluja

Dueling intimate protagonists test limits of fluid alternative timelines.
 
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scott.r | 209 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 12, 2024 |
Tell me if this sounds interesting: there's a character named Red and a character named Blue. Red works for a technologically advanced organization and uses technology and makes technology-related metaphors. Blue works for an plant-focused organization and uses plants and makes plant-related metaphors. When they fall in love, Red gives Blue nicknames related to the color blue. In re Blue gives Red nicknames related to the color red.

I hope that does sound interesting, because that's most of what the book is. Besides those surface-level traits, there's not much else to grab onto. The organizations the characters belong to are almost entirely the same, except that one of them decants its agents and the other one grows them. The main characters themselves have little to differentiate them from one another, other than the fact that one is red and the other is blue. Their actions as soldiers in the time war are largely page-filler between receiving letters from one another, heavy on set-dressing but quite forgettable. The letters aren't anything noteworthy either. The main characters' narrative voices are indistinguishable, making it difficult to tell which one is even writing at any given moment (until they start calling their beloved pomegranate or something like that). Though the letters themselves are written on unique materials--a jar of water, a seed--they all have fairly similar contents, using flowery language to say that Red is red and Blue is blue.

This Is How You Lose the Time War is almost delightful in its simplicity. It's so simple that if you cut the whole book down to a paragraph, it probably wouldn't lose anything, because its premise contains everything notable about it. It says that love is passionate and war is hell like those are shocking new ideas, when I'm not sure I've ever read a book so dedicated to not doing anything to surprise the reader. Its literary-sounding language can't hide the fact that it lacks the complexity and sense of curiosity that make literature interesting. In conclusion, this book offers some banal love poetry and quotable lines--but if you want well-realized characters or an interesting story, look elsewhere.
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Sammelsurium | 209 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 2, 2024 |
My heart hurts all over because of this book. It's seriously so intricate and creative, a definite sci-fi standout that is unlike any other story I've read. I actually tried to read it at the end of 2019 and ended up putting it down after like 8 pages, mostly because it DOES require a decent amount of attention that I just didn't have at the time. But a friend encouraged me to try it again, and I'm SO FREAKIN GLAD I did (thank you a million times, Chris!). There is a brief period of getting into the format of the book and finding the pacing, but after that the book becomes a surprisingly immersive, intimate, and beguiling story that refuses to succumb to stereotype or predictability. And holy cow, the WRITING! It's borderline pretentious, but honestly I love that in a book, and it is just so so SO beautiful and full of emotion.

If you don't like flowery, complicated writing or settings that bounce around from world to world, then this probably isn't the book for you. I can see why certain readers wouldn't click with the writing style or plot (think Dickens writing crafty, flirty sci-fi) but for me personally it ended up hitting every mark. I can't wait to reread it!
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deborahee | 209 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 23, 2024 |
It took me longer than I expected to get into this (no reader, you're not wrong, the prose is sometimes overwrought) but then I did and I was overawed. Thanks for making me cry.
 
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caedocyon | 209 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 21, 2024 |

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