![]() ![]() ![]() It was balanced between intriguing glimpses of world-building and the rising action. ![]() I found The Mimicking of Known Successes to be an excellent cozy mystery and perfectly novella-paced. Together they explore university politics, Jupiter’s largest tourist attraction, and their re-kindling romantic tension with each other. Pleiti is part of a team of Classical scholars who study ecosystems and environments as part of a larger movement to eventually rehabilitate and return to Earth. ![]() Seeking more insight into his politics and motivations, Mossa enlists the help of Pleiti, her ex-girlfriend. The victim is a university man, and Mossa’s initial cursory investigation can find no supporting evidence of a supposed suicide, nor why the man would come to such a distant platform in the first place. Mossa, an Investigator, is summoned to the furthest reaches of the network of floating platforms humanity has created to settle Jupiter in order to investigate a disappearance. The action clicked along nicely, the world-building was intriguing, and Mossa and Pleiti were great characters. I found this novella to be a delightful, satisfying read. In The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older creates a cozy murder mystery in humanity’s distant future on Jupiter. ![]()
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