The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Named a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2024 by Esquire
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a new mystery in the follow-up to the cozy space-opera detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Successes, which 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 may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity's exodus from Earth.
But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a 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.
The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti
The Mimicking of Known Successes
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
The Centenal Cycle
Infomocracy
Null States
State Tectonics
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Older sets another Gaslamp mystery on the rings surrounding Jupiter in her cozy follow-up to The Mimicking of Known Successes. After their last adventure, the relationship between reconciled exes Mossa and Pleiti is more stable, if not set in stone. Now detective Mossa reaches out to academic Pleiti to assist her with another investigation: 17 people—students, teachers, and kitchen workers alike—have gone missing from Valdegeld, the university where Pleiti works. The search for answers as to why such an eclectic bunch has disappeared—and where they've gotten to—sends the duo from the halls of the university to night clubs and one of Jupiter's moons, chasing a conspiracy. The stakes feel somewhat lower this time around and Older largely sets aside the interrogation of the genre that made book one such a standout. Still, her prose remains imminently readable and propulsive and the world feels as richly textured as ever. Readers looking for a quick, comforting mystery will be enjoy curling up with this.
