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A Cozy Gaslamp Mystery and Sapphic Romance in The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

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A Cozy Gaslamp Mystery and Sapphic Romance in The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

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Published on June 16, 2022

Photo credit: Allana Taranto/Ars Magna
Photo credit: Allana Taranto/Ars Magna

On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing…

We’re thrilled to reveal the cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes, a gaslamp murder mystery from Malka Older—arriving March 7, 2023 from Tordotcom Publishing.

A cozy, Jovian gaslamp murder mystery and sapphic romance, by the 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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“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

“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

“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 [that] does more at novella length than many books manage in three times as much.” —K. J. Charles

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The Mimicking of Known Successes

The Mimicking of Known Successes

Cover design by Christine Foltzer

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.

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