{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/678abf8916bc7a854524e06f/69a0cff49d923e5ce9f17a64?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"200. The Time War is Foreplay--\"This is How You Lose the Time War\" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone","description":"<p>We dive into the exquisite love-letter architecture of <em>This Is How You Lose the Time War</em> and ask what happens when desire is literally written into existence. We linger on what it means to love with (or without) a body—across a multiverse full of potential and very real war crimes. Red and Blue, our sapphic leads, slip across timelines and into each other’s hearts in achingly human ways.</p><p><br></p><p>But let’s say the quiet part out loud: romance does not need literary fiction to legitimize it. Distinct genres have distinct pleasures and emotional beats—that’s not a bug; it’s a feature. Excellent books exist within the genre, and outside it--maybe we just stop trying to collapse the publishing multiverse and let genre conventions function as intended?</p><p><br></p><p>Come for the yearning and love letters, stay for the unapologetic defense of the kissing books.</p><p>#RomancePodcast #SapphicRomance #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar #EnemiesToLovers #EpistolaryFiction #QueerRomance #BookDiscussion #ScienceFantasyRomance</p>","author_name":"Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves"}