Tordotcom Publishing is thrilled to announce that Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti are reuniting to solve a brand-new mystery, in this follow-up to the Jovian cozy space opera detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Successes from Hugo-nominated author Malka Older.
In this new entry, acquired by Brent Lambert, the two erstwhile romantic partners must uncover the whereabouts of seventeen missing people from Valdegeld University as they work on rekindling their tentative new relationship.
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles will be published in February 2024.
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the fan-favorite cozy space opera detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Successes that 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 could be found in the outer reaches of the Jovian system—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements. But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as 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.
From Malka Older:
I loved returning to Giant with Mossa and Pleiti because there is so much more to explore in this world! Writing the sequel let me learn more about Mossa’s origins – and why some people resent that she’s a highly placed Investigator; delve deeper into the workings of the university; explore Valdegeld’s night life; and take a side trip to Io. And, of course, a new mystery to solve!
Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, and The Washington Post. She is the creator of the serial Ninth Step Station, currently running on Realm, and her short story collection And Other Disasters came out in November 2019. She is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society and teaches in the genre fiction MFA at Western Colorado University. Her opinions can be found in The New York Times, The Nation, and Foreign Policy, among others.
The Mimicking of Known Successes is forthcoming on March 7, 2023 and is available for preorder.
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