The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacl..., Malka Older
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacl..., Malka Older
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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles

Author: Malka Older

Narrator: Lindsey Dorcus

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/13/2024

Synopsis

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 persons 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.

About Malka Older

MALKA OLDER is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot, and the Washington Post. The Centenal Cycle trilogy, which also includes Null States (2017) and State Tectonics (2018), is a finalist for the Hugo Best Series Award of 2018. She is also the creator of the serial Ninth Step Station, currently running on Serial Box, and her short story collection And Other Disasters will come out in December 2019. Named Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for 2015, she has more than a decade of field experience in humanitarian aid and development. Her doctoral work on the sociology of organizations at Sciences Po Paris explores the dynamics of post-disaster improvisation in governments.

Reviews

Goodreads review by * A Reader Obsessed * on March 07, 2024

3 Stars A solid performance but personally, not as engaging as The Mimicking of Known Successes. I will say that I found the world building to be consistently interesting. Set in the far future, Earth’s descendants have colonized Jupiter with the main goal of one day returning to their home planet. In......more

Goodreads review by Evestar91 on April 06, 2025

I looked again at the bare platform, empty of amenities, sparse of society, precarious in every way, and wondered again at our human tendency to romanticize the imposition of unnecessary obstacles into our lives. The second installment in the Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti novella series, The Imp......more

Goodreads review by Chantaal on April 16, 2024

The Mimicking of Known Successes was one of my top reads in 2023, and I was so excited for this follow up to the Holmesian coziness that is Mossa and Pleiti solving a mystery. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles takes place some time after the first book, and Mossa and Pleiti are in something of......more

Goodreads review by Mara on June 29, 2024

4.5 stars - Even better than the first! I love the characters, world, and vibes, and this one had more room for the mystery with the worldbuilding already in place. Can't wait for more......more

Goodreads review by Megan on November 11, 2024

3.5 stars. reading vlog: [URL not allowed] loved the mystery in this but found the ending very disappointing!! loving the characters + the development of the world though......more

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