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Mar 17, 2020

THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR,

& my queer spy vs. spy novella, is out in paperback today! Ken Liu calls it "seditious & seductive" Indiebound: indiebound.org/book/978153443 B&N: barnesandnoble.com/w/this-is-how- Chapters: chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/th Amazon: amazon.com/This-How-You-L

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good morning I am awake & this is still somehow real here's a Gizmodo interview with

Viral Star Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood Interview: Sci-Fi Books, Trigun

, who is wonderful

gizmodo.com

Me and Mr. Bigolas chat about This is How You Lose the Time War, Trigun, fandom, and going viral.

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Editora Suma

@EditoraSuma

Não tinha como não usar o vídeo da

@BoscovIsabela

para dizer que É ASSIM QUE SE PERDE A GUERRA DO TEMPO, de

(com tradução de

@eincompreendida

) é TUDO (e obrigado pelos mimos

)! 😍✨ Também ama o livro? Comenta aqui o seu trecho favorito! 💙

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read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens

@CSMFHT

When you find out who has been hyping this book

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read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.

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incredibly I must once again succumb to the mortal need for sleep but I am therefore also again beseeching any of you in other time zones who are interested in keeping an eye on this to screenshot if even for one second it goes above 3 because I would love to see it! good night!

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bigolas is officially more effective at selling books than winning a fucking pulitzer prize.

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For those not in the know, Twitter user Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood tweeted their love for the sublime sci-fi novel This Is How You Lose the Time War, tweet went viral, book is now #3 in sales of ALL books on Amazon. This is the beautiful chaos energy that makes Twitter special 💖

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[whispering] oh the places you'll go

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screenshot of two rows of Amazon's Top 8 bestsellers, with Time War at number 3 and Oh, the Places You'll Go at number 5

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cannot stress enough that this was NOT A BIT, I was GOING to post the screenshot of time war alone the way I had been doing & wrote the tweet & my husband texted me the screenshot of it at number 3

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dongwon 송동원

@dongwon

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bigolas is officially more effective at selling books than winning a fucking pulitzer prize.

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I just realized I broke format cataloguing this so here is Time War at number 5 in Amazon's Bestsellers--no wait--no wait what

A screenshot of This Is How You Lose the Time War at number 3 on Amazon

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Fonda Lee

@FondaJLee

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Me joining Trigun fandom for professional reasons

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John Wiswell

@Wiswell

Vash the Stampede, I've seen what you've done for others and...

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John remembers he still has all of Trigun on DVD and creates a prayer circle out of the boxes, with a lit candle on the center.

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Trigun Fan Tweet Causes 2019 Queer Sci-Fi Novel to Climb Sales Charts

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Also crunchyroll has weighed in

crunchyroll.com

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ALERT ALERT WE'RE AT NUMBER 5 WE HIT NUMBER 5 WE ARE SOMEHOW ABOVE TAYLOR SWIFT

Screenshot of the top 5 bestsellers in Books on Amazon. 1: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom; 2: There are Moms Way Worse Than You; 3: Tell Me Your Life Story, Mom; 4: Oh, the Places You'll Go; and at 5, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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Dan Olson

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I agree with bigolas dickolas: you should absolutely read This is How You Lose the Time War

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read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.

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Gretchen McCulloch

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This is my thread of assorted linguistic observations from This Is How You Lose The Time War, by the way:

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I believe the correct name for this thread is THIS IS HOW YOU TWEET THE TIME WAR (Assorted semi-linguistic thoughts and snippets from THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, which I LOVED)

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so apparently im in this narrative now (can attest that This Is How You Lose The Time War is great though!!!)

What do you think it is about this tweet specifically that took off?

I think it’s a combination of things. There’s all the dark-box algo stuff. There’s no link in the tweet to a sales site, so it’s not getting suppressed by Twitter’s suppressing of links. It is pure fan-to-fan enthusiasm. In the context of a fan account, where people are used to sharing phenomenal art and GIFs and feelings and stuff, that kind of primes an audience for receiving something in a certain way.

I also like studying the grammar of it. Do you know Gretchen McCulloch’s Because Internet? Her area of expertise is the way we talk to each other on the internet. I don’t know as much as her, but I do think there is poetry to it! No cap: Read this. Then, all caps: DO NOT look up anything … To me, the tweet is beautiful.

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Brian McNett

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"Bigolas Dickolas" is trending. Yes, I know what this is about. I've been watching this unfold throughout the day. It's weird but awesome. I hope that

and

slate.comA Q&A With the Author Whose Book Is Rocketing up the Charts Thanks to a Tweet From “Bigolas...The tweet appeared on Sunday. By Monday, the book was in Amazon's Top 100—and rising.

get plenty of book sales from this.

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Liz ⁷ | trigun brainrot hehe

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funniest moment in fandom history #trigun #wolfwood #nicholasdwolfwood #trimax

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one day bigolas dickolas will look out & weep to find no more worlds to conquer

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um @tithenai

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OH MY GOD MY HEART!!!!

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This is for @maskofbun since I was um… Inspired to say the least, have this Trigun and tihylttw crossover xoxo #TRIGUN #thisishowyouloosethetimewar

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in honor of a book I love having a very weird day [positive], I made a thing

A hardcover copy of This Is How You Lose the Time War: the dust jacket is laying halfway off the black hardbound book, so you can see both. Sitting on it there is a tiny 1:6 scale copy of the book without the dust jacket

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A Barbie doll (white, ginger hair, Dana Scully's face) wearing a black knit cap and a black shirt is curled up in a pink waffle blanket against a teal fabric background in warm lamp light. She has the small copy of Time War held open to read it. She looks very cozy.

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Michael Andersen

@mjandersen

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Hey, completely unrelated to everything, but remember how much fun

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had with how they signed copies of Time War?

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Yoshihiro Watanabe

@crazynabe

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Have I bought the book? Yes.

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may we all find some @maskofbun energy in our lives

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Wess

@GeekyManatee

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Everybody should absolutely do themselves a favor and read This Is How You Lose the Time War. It’s a beautiful story of imaginative, poetic prose that will stick with you for a long while after you put it down.

delivered something special.

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Amal El-Mohtar and 2 others

may we all find some

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And Book Riot

Bigolas Dickolas is the Best of Book Twitter

When anime account "Bigolas Dickolas" tweeted about the 2019 book This Is How You Lose the Time War, it made it a bestseller overnight.

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my academia-poisoning requires me to attempt to keep an ordered list of media responses, here we go, in addition to Kotaku & Slate there is also Gizmodo

gizmodo.com

How a Trigun Stan Made a 2019 Sci-Fi Novel a Hit on Amazon

This Is How You Lose the Time War already racked up Hugo and Nebula awards, but now it has the approval of... Twitter user Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood.

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Book Riot

@BookRiot

Bigolas Dickolas is the Best of Book Twitter

What really sells books? Word of mouth. And what is word of mouth? It's this.

bookriot.com

When anime account "Bigolas Dickolas" tweeted about the 2019 book This Is How You Lose the Time War, it made it a bestseller overnight.

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Lindsay Smith: THE SHADOW WAR out now!

@LindsaySmithDC

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The surreality of watching my current fandom/ship hideout of choice lose their collective shit over awesome Witch co-conspirator

and all-around awesome human

has. Sure been an experience. And much deserved ❤️🖤

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@BookRiot

What really sells books? Word of mouth. And what is word of mouth? It's this. ow.ly/3Tk350OkLaE

How a Trigun Stan Made a 2019 Sci-Fi Novel a Hit on Amazon

YES,

. YES.

This Is How You Lose the Time War already racked up Hugo and Nebula awards, but now it has the approval of... Twitter user Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood.

please I'm sobbing

explaining the poetic appeal of the name "Bigolas Dickolas" to the Slate interviewer I am about to explode

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Jackson Lanzing

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This is the most joyful thing I've seen this year. Also: what are you doing here go read THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR aka my favorite book of 2019 before I reach through your screen and put it in your hands myself.

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many thanks to Sisi Jiang for this write-up on Kotaku! extremely grateful to be able to point to a single source on this instead of tripping over my screenshots kotaku.com/this-is-how-yo

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Arkady Martine (Dr. AnnaLinden Weller)

fucking christ,

, I read Slate for WORK this is the best internet in a long time I salute you, bigolas dickolas wolfwood

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A Q&A With the Author Whose Book Is Rocketing up the Charts Thanks to a Tweet From “Bigolas...

I keep wanting to do a how it started / how it's going tweet but I have no idea WHERE IT'S GOING

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The tweet appeared on Sunday. By Monday, the book was in Amazon's Top 100—and rising.

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Come on

, do the right thing!

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@DarkHorseComics With the upmost respect for your time, can you please reprint the Trigun manga? I am willing to do all the promotions and marketing

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Dan Kois

@dankois

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read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 1,200 words u can download it on instapaper and it'll read it to you in two minutes. do it right now i'm very extremely serious. slate.com/culture/2023/0

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