Middlegame

Its place in Alchemical Journeys

Middlegame is book 1 in the Alchemical Journeys series. It is followed by Seasonal Fears. 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…