作者简介

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. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. 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 Hugo ballot.

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New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers 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.


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. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W...

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  • 杨枫.js
    一部完全看不出炼金术发挥了什么作用的炼金术小说,看上去做了很多设计,但是炼金术跟科学不一样,首先现代读者对它很陌生,其次它缺少一个清晰的逻辑上的体系(至少作者没能把这点传达出来),这样一来,小说能传递给读者的最清晰的内容依旧是少男少女同代表了某种宏大叙事的旧有力量战斗的过程。故事本身并不难看——只要你仅仅把它当做青春文学去看,还是具有可读性的,除却对《绿野仙踪》的重新书写外,甚至还透出了一丝《新世纪福音战士》的味道。但是在同年的雨果奖长篇组里还出现了同路数的《Ten Thousand Doors of January》的情况下,我只能说本作还是欠缺一点独特性,远谈不上是振聋发聩的杰作。11-16
  • 钚Janus
    对于我这样的没有炼金术知识,常年沉迷于nonfiction的人来说,这本书的也就是一个普通的YA故事,而且还有些许拖沓。04-03
  • nociw
    故事还行,数学天才妹妹和语言大师哥哥反杀炼金术怪人团。九月刊卡在一个奇妙的位置,让我觉得哦吼有点强,结果下部一通乱扯还有点矫情成分。03-19
  • makzhou
    三星半。译文版21年两期刊出。很成熟的作品:青少年成长+恐怖+炼金术奇幻,YA类型的顶流作品(?我没读过啥,瞎猜的),优点当然是要素的融合,一则象征预言,一幅模糊的奇幻背景,一段找寻自我的路。个人最喜欢的是兄妹二人成长的戏份,细腻,颤动,又带有青少年独有的绝望,各种学校场景非常贴切,emo到位。奇幻叙事本身只能说是中规中矩,打倒算计大魔王的故事,靠操纵时间来开buff(还有数学,跟魔法一样)因此后段有点拉胯。过得去但一般般。McGuire本人对恐怖片的热爱也体现得淋漓尽致,各种血浆、断肢、惊悚梗,很特别。01-01
  • 烤一周
    科幻世界译文版2021/10-11刊载,当属于奇幻,总体评价一般。双线叙事,一条线是帅气炼金术师版弗兰肯斯希望通过人造人实验创造完美世界;另一条线跟随帅哥罗杰和妹子道奇远隔千里互不相识却能够千里传音量子通信,随着故事推进发现他俩是弗兰肯斯坦实验的一部分。作者把完美世界套了个“不可能之城”的壳子,编了个童话寓言穿插在故事中让科学狂人的实验玄玄乎乎的。不过从男女主知道了真相后,花里胡哨的外衣就被彻底剥掉,沦为一个典型的青春奇幻对战故事。开篇现实世界引入炼金术有些噱头,但是整个组织架构体系没有很好的构建,比较简单的故事走向也让后面的发展没什么悬念,最后逐渐网文风。01-09

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