![]() Raised in separate homes, the siblings are at first unaware of each other. ![]() And those are two things that tend to get you kicked in the teeth by the world over and over again,” McGuire says. “Dodger is a math prodigy and a smart girl. Dodger, on the other hand, has had a harder time socializing as a result, she is less trusting and keeps to herself. Life is easier for Roger, whose facility with words opens doors. Instead of a hideous monster, her alchemist produces two brilliant siblings, whose rhyming names (Roger, a genius at languages, and Dodger, a math prodigy) belie their potential to control time and space. McGuire sees elements of a “modern Frankenstein” in her novel about a brother and sister created by a ruthless alchemist. Science fiction and fantasy often feature characters who seek absolute control (over a kingdom, country, world, galaxy or universe), but few break down the secret to power as elegantly as Seanan McGuire in Middlegame (Tor.com, 2019), where her sibling protagonists subdue the forces of nature through the union of two fundamental arts: language and mathematics. ![]()
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