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The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

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Also by Malka Older:

We Will Rise Again, December 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, June 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, February 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Mimicking of Known Successes, March 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Infomocracy, August 2017
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THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES
By: Malka Older

The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti
Tordotcom
March 2023
On Sale: March 7, 2023
ISBN: 1250860504
EAN: 9781250860507
Kindle: B09XL6JWZ8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.

On a remote, gas- wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university—and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems.

Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti’s assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake—and, perhaps, their futures, together.