Middlegame (Alchemical Journeys, 1)

Middlegame (Alchemical Journeys, 1)

<p><b><i>New York Times </i>bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, <i>Middlegame</i>.</b></p><p>Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. </p><p>Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.</p><p>Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.</p><p>Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.</p><p>Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.</p><br><p>Named as one of <i>Paste Magazine</i>'s 30 Best Fanatsy Novels of the Decade!</p>