Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery!
We’re thrilled to share the cover of Malka Older’s The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, the follow-up to the fan-favorite cozy space opera detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Successes. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles will be available February 13, 2024 from Tordotcom Publishing.
“An utter triumph.” —Charlie Jane Anders on A Mimicking of Known Successes
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 on the moon—the moon of Io, that is, also 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.
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Malka Older is an author, a humanitarian, a sociopunk, and a practitioner of speculative resistance and evidence-based creativity. Her political science fiction thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot, and The Washington Post, and with its sequels, Null States and State Tectonics, was a finalist for the Hugo Best Series award. Her new series of mysteries set on a gas giant planet, begins with the acclaimed The Mimicking of Known Successes and continues with The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles. She has also written numerous serials, short stories, poetry, and essays, and published the collection …And Other Disasters. She is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University, where she teaches on predictive fictions and hosts the Science Fiction Sparkle Salon. Her opinions can be found in The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and NBC THINK, among other places.
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