A Trigun fan account just turned a queer 2019 sci-fi novel into an Amazon bestseller
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s 2019 sci-fi novel This Is How You Lose the Time War unexpectedly became the sixth most popular book on the Amazon last weekend, and it’s all thanks to “Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood.”
No, that isn’t the name of a lesser-known cousin of Lord of the Rings’ Sindar Elven archer of the Woodland Realm. It’s the handle of a Twitter user who on Sunday, May 7, tweeted a short endorsement of the book. Presumably buoyed by the sheer absurdity of a name like “Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood,” combined with such an earnest endorsement of the novel, the the tweet quickly went viral, which gave the book’s sales a boost.
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. pic.twitter.com/Pzb2FWvFlg
For those unfamiliar, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epistolary novel following two rival time-traveling saboteur agents, code-named Red and Blue, who work against each other to alter the timeline for their respective factions. Leaving each other taunting messages across time and space, the two agents begin to fall in love the way you fall asleep; slowly at first, then all at once, forcing them to consider what the future holds for them after the so-called “Time War” is won and lost.
In a blog post published on Tuesday, titled “I tried to title this post for twenty minutes and failed,” El-Mohtar explained her take on the situation and expressed her gratitude for Bigolas Dickolas’ ringing recommendation. “As far as I can tell, someone going by the name Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood runs a fan account for a 90s anime called Trigun which was recently rebooted, and tweeted about loving
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