And, ultimately, it is about how those with limitless power are, and should be, judged by those who are powerless. It is about the struggle between the slavery of destiny and the freedom of self-determination. It is about the universality of mathematics and the ineffable power of language and story. It is about the eternal struggle between science and storytelling, the struggle against sexism and the equity denied half of the humans on the planet. It is grand in scale, and yet incredibly personal. It is a novel rife with dichotomies and the struggles between the extremes. In Middlegame, award-winning author Seanan Mcguire tells a complex and compelling story about how two children find their way in the world, with the fate of the universe hanging in the balance. Reed created Roger and Dodger, and he plans to watch and guide them from afar until he can use them for his ultimate purpose: controlling the universe.
He was created over 100 years ago, by a different alchemist, whom he killed shortly after she brought him to life. Reed is not a scientist, but an alchemist. These two children, who are incredibly similar and almost diametrically opposed, are of intense interest to James Reed. But she doesn’t deal well with people and has incredible difficulties deciphering anything outside the realm of the numbers she finds so easy to understand. She appears to be able to comprehend and master increasingly complex levels of equations far beyond her limited number of years. She lives with her parents in Palo Alto, California and she is a mathematical genius. But he struggles with even the most basic levels of mathematics.ĭodger Cheswich is not a typical seven-year-old girl. He seems to be exceptionally gifted when it comes to grammar, spelling, anything to do with languages, really. He lives with his adopted parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Roger Middleton is a rather typical seven-year-old boy.
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