This Is How You Lose the Time War

This book by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Hugh Howey, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-12-31 and the most recent from 2024-03-13. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters, and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter.