title: Queenmagic, Kingmagic
text: # Queenmagic, Kingmagic
  
  Queenmagic, Kingmagic is a novel by Ian Watson published in 1986.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  Queenmagic, Kingmagic is a novel in which the hero and heroines are pawns in a game world involving chess, and travel to worlds of other games.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Dave Langford reviewed Queenmagic, Kingmagic for White Dwarf #83, and stated that "The expected unexpected finale is very Watsonesque."
  
  ## Reviews
  
  * Review by Faren Miller (1986) in Locus, #307 August 1986
  * Review by Chris Morgan (1986) in Fantasy Review, November 1986
  * Review by Martyn Taylor (1986) in Vector 135
  * Review by Orson Scott Card (1988) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1988
  * Review by Baird Searles (1988) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1988
  * Review by Michael Abbott (2010) in Vector 262 Winter 2010
  