Runner-up, Best Novel, 2020

Middlegame

Seanan McGuire (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 528 pages

Twins made by an alchemist to embody language and mathematics are separated as children and keep finding one another, while their maker waits to use them.

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The ballot

A Memory Called EmpireArkady MartineTor; Tor UKWinner
Gideon the NinthTamsyn MuirTor.com Publishing
The Light BrigadeKameron HurleySaga; Angry Robot UK
The City in the Middle of the NightCharlie Jane AndersTor; Titan
The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuaryAlix E. HarrowRedhook; Orbit UK