The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, 1)

Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Successes absolutely is both of those things. An utter triumph.Charlie Jane Anders A Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction of the Year Pick A Library Journal Best SF/F of the Year Pick A Book Riot Best Mystery and Science Fiction of the Year Pick An Autostraddle Best Science Fiction of the Year Pick A Most Anticipated in 2023 Pick for Today.com | Buzzfeed | Polygon | Book Riot | Ms. Magazine 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 colonys erudite universityand Mossas former girlfriend, a scholar of Earths 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 Pleitis assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stakeand, perhaps, their futures, together. The Centenal Cycle by Malka Older Infomocracy Null States State Tectonics