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.
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.
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Micro-democracy and global information networks frame the political science fiction of The Centenal Cycle, a speculative novel series that begins with Infomocracy. Author Malka Older integrates deep expertise in sociology, governance, and international humanitarian response to craft imaginative narratives about global information management, institutional design, and political systems.
Malka Older is a writer, sociologist, and humanitarian aid worker who earned degrees from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and Sciences Po. Prior to establishing her literary career, she spent over eight years in international humanitarian aid and development, eventually serving as the 2015 Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. She serves as the Executive Director of Global Voices, an international network of writers, editors, and translators providing community journalism while advocating for indigenous and minority languages, media literacy, digital rights, and online freedom of expression. Older is also a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she teaches courses on predictive fictions and the humanitarian-development spectrum, hosts the Science Fiction Sparkle Salon, and acts as an Associate Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations.
Older's fiction examines the structural mechanisms of governance, technology, institutional resilience, and social cohesion across complex future societies. In The Centenal Cycle—comprising Infomocracy, Null States, and State Tectonics—she analyzes micro-democracies driven by global search engines and data algorithms. Her shorter fiction, including the collection ...And Other Disasters and the standalone work Narrative Disorder, focuses on themes of identity, otherness, artificial intelligence, and human adaptation during crisis. In her Jupiter-based science-fiction mystery series starring investigator Mossa and academic Pleiti, Older combines traditional detective procedural elements with scholarly inquiry and romance, investigating societal structures on a terraformed gas giant.
6 books in catalog
Micro-democracy and global information networks frame the political science fiction of The Centenal Cycle, a speculative novel series that begins with Infomocracy. Author Malka Older integrates deep expertise in sociology, governance, and international humanitarian response to craft imaginative narratives about global information management, institutional design, and political systems.
Malka Older is a writer, sociologist, and humanitarian aid worker who earned degrees from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and Sciences Po. Prior to establishing her literary career, she spent over eight years in international humanitarian aid and development, eventually serving as the 2015 Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. She serves as the Executive Director of Global Voices, an international network of writers, editors, and translators providing community journalism while advocating for indigenous and minority languages, media literacy, digital rights, and online freedom of expression. Older is also a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she teaches courses on predictive fictions and the humanitarian-development spectrum, hosts the Science Fiction Sparkle Salon, and acts as an Associate Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations.
Older's fiction examines the structural mechanisms of governance, technology, institutional resilience, and social cohesion across complex future societies. In The Centenal Cycle—comprising Infomocracy, Null States, and State Tectonics—she analyzes micro-democracies driven by global search engines and data algorithms. Her shorter fiction, including the collection ...And Other Disasters and the standalone work Narrative Disorder, focuses on themes of identity, otherness, artificial intelligence, and human adaptation during crisis. In her Jupiter-based science-fiction mystery series starring investigator Mossa and academic Pleiti, Older combines traditional detective procedural elements with scholarly inquiry and romance, investigating societal structures on a terraformed gas giant.
The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti
The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti
