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I’m reading This Is How You Lose the Time War, and the modern cultural references are inexcusable.

These are supposed to be hyper-futuristic time travelers, and this is an actual line from one of Red’s letters: “Ha-ha, Blueser. Your mission objective’s in another castle.” (A Super Mario reference in this book, why??) There’s also “sorry-not-sorry,” “ain’t no mountain high enough,” etc.

Anyone else bump up against these modern insertions? Really takes me out of it, especially for a book that’s supposed to be beautiful poetry.