Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Biography
The collaborative duo of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is best known for their multiple award-winning novella, 'This Is How You Lose the Time War.' This creative union brings together El-Mohtar's poetic sensibility and lyrical prose with Gladstone's intellectual rigor and intricate world-building, creating a distinctive literary voice. Their joint works are characterized by their epistolary structure, profound emotional depth, and exploration of complex themes such as communication, identity, war, and the nature of time itself. Their collaboration is a testament to the synergy that can emerge when two distinct, talented authors merge their strengths, resulting in narratives that are both structurally innovative and deeply moving within the speculative fiction landscape.
Selected Thoughts
«I love you. I love you. I love you. I’ll write it in the sky, I’ll write it in the dirt, I’ll write it in letters you can never read. I’ll write it with my hands, my feet, my blood, my breath. I’ll write it in the stars, I’ll write it in the very fabric of time itself.»
«Memory is a thing like a net; it holds some things, but lets others pass.»
«I want to be your lighthouse, your port, your map. I want to be your haven, your hearth, your home. I want to be the reason you look up from the battlefield, the reason you keep going.»
Writing Style
A unique blend of lyrical prose and intricate, concept-driven narrative; poetic, philosophical, epistolary, emotionally intense, with sophisticated world-building and character development.