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Middlegame

By: Seanan McGuire
Narrated by: Amber Benson
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A Locus Award Finalist!

This program is read by Amber Benson.

New York Times best-selling 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 stand-alone 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 realize 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.

©2019 Seanan McGuire (P)2019 Macmillan Audio

Accolades & Awards

Locus Award
2020
Locus Award Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure Paranormal & Urban Contemporary Action & Adventure Heartfelt Feel-Good Middle Game

Critic reviews

2019 NPR Best Book of the Year
2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
2020 Hugo Award Nominee
2020 Locus Awards Nominee

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Seriously, the worst Boston accent I've ever heard from a narrator. Once you get past that, the book is hard to put down.

fantastic story

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I can’t put in to words how good this was and how it makes you think

Simply fantastic

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I can't get enough of it. I keep thinking about this book and being sad that it ended, but happy it has a great ending!

LOVE

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magical and scientifical, a cross between fantasy fiction and sci fi. veery well constructed. would like it to have a sequel.

amazing

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I decided to start a short review, even though I am only about 2 hours into the book.
The writing is sharp, the narrative flow is good, and the story seems promising. However, I have to agree with other reviews about the poor voice narration. The voicing of the villains is so overdone and cartoonish that it distracts and frustrates. Makes you wonder who greenlights these productions. I will make an effort to finish the book, but I'm not 100% certain I'll be able to. I may end up buying the print version.

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