The Mimicking of Known Successes

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Maika Ann Older was the 173rd official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.

Reading Period: November 1, 2023 to November 30, 2023

How/Why was this book chosen: Tom chose it after asking for suggestions on Discord for Sci-fi books published in 2023.

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The Mimicking of Known Successes by Maika Ann Older

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.