Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, We Love “This is How You Lose the Time War” and so Will You

Prose and Context
5 min readApr 20, 2024

Discussing a book which defies categorization

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Shades of Possibility

The future is Red. The world is elegant and crystalline; human minds merging and separating in a vast network, needing no physical shape but capable of taking any, in sleek mechanical design. The Agency monitors and corrects any flaw in the utopian system.

The future is Blue. The world is lush and alive; humans live in wondrous symbiosis with their environment, rigid technology long having proved inferior to clever and flexible evolution. Life is meticulously planted, nurtured and controlled in the utopia of Garden.

These futures are incompatible. To continue existing, one side must destroy the other. Each sends agents into the past, to divert the current of time away from the enemy’s future and toward their own.

This novel is a love story.

Red cyborg grapples with Blue Faerie-like being.
Red and Blue’s conflict echoes through time — art by Laya Rose

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Prose and Context

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