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A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!
This program is read by Amber Benson.
New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces listeners 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.
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“McGuire sets a high bar for alchemy-based stories…This singular work keeps readers thinking long after the final page.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
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“What a story…If you’ve got a love for fantasy, you should read Middlegame."
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"[A] tragic, triumphant novel…the finest work to date from an author of consistently fine works.”
— Barnes&Noble SFF Blog -
“Imaginatively conceived, carefully constructed, fantastically written…[a] delightful and captivating outing.”
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“This is a fascinating novel by an author of consummate skill.”
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“Satisfying on all levels of the reading experience: thrilling, emotionally resonant, and cerebral.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Awards
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Winner of an Alex Award for Best YA Novel
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Finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award
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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among shortlisted titles for Locus Awards - Nominee, 2020
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Winner of Locus Awards - Winner, 2020
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Among shortlisted titles for Hugo Award - Nominee, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among shortlisted titles for Locus Awards - Nominee, 2020
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Winner of Locus Awards - Winner, 2020
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Among shortlisted titles for Hugo Award - Nominee, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among shortlisted titles for Locus Awards - Nominee, 2020
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Winner of Locus Awards - Winner, 2020
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Among shortlisted titles for Hugo Award - Nominee, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2019
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About Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same ballot for the Hugo Award. In 2022, she managed the same feat again.
About Amber Benson
Amber Benson cocreated, cowrote, and directed the animated supernatural web series Ghosts of Albion. She is the author of Witchery, Accursed, and the novella Astray. As an actress, she has appeared in dozens of roles in feature films, TV movies, and television series, including the role of Tara Maclay on three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Benson also wrote, produced, and directed the feature films Chance and Lovers, Liars, and Lunatics.