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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older

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Also by Malka Older:

We Will Rise Again, December 2025
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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 IMPOSITION OF UNNECESSARY OBSTACLES
By: Malka Older

The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti #2
Tordotcom
February 2024
On Sale: February 13, 2024
224 pages
ISBN: 1250906792
EAN: 9781250906793
Kindle: B0C1X821ZV
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction | Romance LGBTQ

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a new mystery in the follow-up to the cozy space-opera detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Successes, which Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders called “an utter triumph.”

Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing person’s case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld University—yet no one has noticed. The answers to this case may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity's exodus from Earth.

But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a scholar of the past has grown precarious, and this new case threatens to further destabilize her dreams for humanity’s future, as well as her own.