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!