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The Mimicking of Known Successes
- Author
- Malka Older
- Narrator
- Lindsey Dorcus
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 7 March 2023
- Run Time
- 4 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“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, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author
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“Older has created a wonderfully sci-fi take on the gaslamp mystery. Add in the wry depiction of academia and the warmly authentic portrayal of a relationship in the process of rekindling, and this is exactly my kind of story!”
Freya Marske, bestselling author of A Marvellous Light
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“A magnificently imaginative setting, a nicely developed and satisfyingly resolved mystery, a beautifully understated central romance, and a lot of thought-provoking ideas make this an immensely satisfying read. Does more at novella length than many books manage in three times as much.”
K. J. Charles, author of the Will Darling Adventures series
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“Malka Older has created a far-flung speculative winner that is as much hard science fiction as it is gritty xenobiological noir, with characters you want to see get closer…to the possible killer and each other. I am absolutely in love with this world and these characters.”
Fran WIlde, Nebula Award–winning author
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Details
- Author
- Malka Older
- Narrator
- Lindsey Dorcus
- Duration
- 4 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 March 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212246989
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Science fiction: space exploration, Romance
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
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.
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