Middlegame

<p><b>A HUGO AWARD FINALIST!<br></b><br><b>WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL, 2020!</b><br><br><b>A Pick on the 2020 RUSA Reading List!<br><br></b><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><br><br>Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. <br><br>Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.<br><br>Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.<br><br>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.<br><br>Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.<br><br><br>A <i>USA Today</i> Bestseller, and named as one of <i>Paste Magazine</i>'s 30 Best Fantasy Novels of the Decade!</p>