Alchemical Journeys · Book 4

Inkpot Gods

by Seanan McGuire

Published
9 June 2026
Pages
332
ISBN-13
9781250339348
Type
novel

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About this book

Inkpot Gods, published June 9, 2026, is the most recent entry at 332 pages, continuing Seanan McGuire's one-novel-per-classical-element structure with its own standalone cast connected to the wider Alchemical Congress mythology.

Its place in Alchemical Journeys

Inkpot Gods is book 4 in the Alchemical Journeys series. It follows Tidal Creatures. See the full Alchemical Journeys reading order.

Alchemical Journeys is Seanan McGuire's series of interconnected but standalone dark fantasy novels, each built around a different classical alchemical element and united by a hidden world of impossible cities, amoral alchemists, and forces trying to reshape reality through story and language. Middlegame opens the sequence with Roger and Dodger, twins engineered and separated at birth by an alchemist chasing godlike power through the manipulation of language and math -- a novel about doors between impossible…

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