2022/123: Middlegame — Seanan McGuire

2022/123: Middlegame — Seanan McGuire

...if they wanted to control the elemental forces of creation, they shouldn't have turned us into people. People have their own agendas.[loc. 6181]

Roger and Dodger (yes, rhyming names suck) live on opposite sides of the USA. As children, they discover that they can communicate telepathically, or possibly by quantum entanglement. Roger is good with words: Dodger (who's a girl) is a maths prodigy. They want to meet up, but Roger's parents in particular don't seem at all keen on the idea. Only when they're in their late teens do they end up at Berkeley as post-grads -- and there they begin to realise that they are part of a vast alchemical experiment, an attempt to manifest the Doctrine of Ethos.

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