Howard Brazee’s Reviews > Middlegame > Status Update

This book takes place in a world like ours, except alchemy exists, and all of the alchemists we see are very evil. One had killed his teacher he admired and is creating people who he wants to use to control the universe. Most of this story is about those people (the woman is a mathematician, her duplicate is a man who knows language. I liked reading about them, and how they grew and changed—and changed the past