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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
A Science Fiction Novel by Malka Older
Book 2 of the The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Space Opera,
- Detective Mystery,
- Cozy Mystery
This book is for you if you're into...
- Cozy mysteries set in futuristic academic worlds
- Detective duos investigating disappearances on distant moons
- Stories where history and personal ambition collide
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.
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.
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