Middlegame (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250195524)

A HUGO AWARD FINALIST

WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL, 2020

A Pick on the 2020 RUSA Reading List

New York Times 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, Middlegame.

Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.

Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.

Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realise it. They aren't exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.

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.

Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn't attained.

A USA Today Bestseller, and named as one of Paste Magazine's 30 Best Fantasy Novels of the Decade

Author: Seanan McGuire
ISBN-10: 1250195527
ISBN-13: 9781250195524
Publisher: Tordotcom
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2019
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.60d
Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Award: Hugo Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2019 pg. 41
Booklist 03/15/2019 pg. 53
Library Journal 04/01/2019 pg. 67
Publishers Weekly 04/01/2019
School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 109
Shelf Awareness 05/07/2019