The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older
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The Mimicking of Known Successes

Author: Malka Older

Narrator: Lindsey Dorcus

Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/07/2023

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.

About Malka Older

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.

About Lindsey Dorcus

Lindsey Dorcus is a SOVAS and IAA Award-winning audiobook narrator and classically trained actor. She has narrated over fifty titles for publishers like Penguin Random House, Disney Hyperion, Audible Studios, Scribd, and others. After receiving her BA in theater from Northwestern University, she worked as a theater artist and teacher in Chicago for over ten years, before shifting her focus to audiobooks. She especially loves narrating YA, science fiction/fantasy, and stories with LGBTQ+ themes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rebecca

A smart and entertaining escape to a Jupiter-like planet where two former lovers, both socially awkward in their own ways, join up to solve a mystery. It's a cozy in space, and the kind of book you might want to read over tea and scones (a favorite breakfast of the characters.) It's short, less than......more

Goodreads review by Charlie

Hot damn, I am in love with this book. Mossa and Pleiti are two amazing characters, and I stan them forever. I want to read several more books about their adventures. Basically, The Mimicking of Known Successes is a "cozy murder mystery" set on Jupiter, with a lovely relationship at its center. The......more

Goodreads review by Evestar91

She had turned one of the wall panels into a storyboard for the investigation, plotting the little she knew and what she wanted to find out. It didn’t require a review of the paltry first and the much more extensive second to figure out where she needed to go next, however. And when she considered w......more

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“Reading this novella was an absolute delight.” Locus

“Lindsey Dorcus…portrays Mossa with a brisk, no-nonsense tone that fits both her personality and her role as an investigator…Dorcus’s performance is invigorating and keeps the plot moving briskly along” AudioFile

“Packs a punch…Combining an old-timey aesthetic and a powerful message, this sapphic genre bender is a treat.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A novel that attempts to have equal footing in two genres―never mind three…[and] The Mimicking of Known Successes, a work of speculative fiction, a traditional mystery, and a romance, is a walloping success.” First Clue (starred review)

“[A] quiet yet compelling whodunit.” Booklist (starred review)

“Combining planetary resettlement SF with steampunk, mystery, climate fiction, and a touch of romance.” Library Journal

“A rousing, fist-pumping adventure…An utter triumph.” Charlie Jane Anders, author of Victories Greater Than Death

“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.” Fran Wilde, author of The Ship of Stolen Worlds

“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.” K. J. Charles, author of the Will Darling Adventures series

“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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