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“Because being of utility was more than I had expected, and yet one still does not want to be used. Of use, but not used.”

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older

August 27, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The Mimicking of Known Successes can be quickly described as what if Sherlock Holmes, but sapphic and in a sci-fi future where the Earth is uninhabitable and humans have colonized Jupiter?   Malka Ann Older’s resume is a wide combination of things, and it feeds directly into the kind of book that The Mimicking of Known Successes is. We have here a book that examines what happens next when final resources are used to leave Earth, but the goal is to go back. Pleiti is our […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Malka Ann Older, Malka Older, Migrant, novella, queernorm, read harder challenge, Sherlock Retellings

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Malka Ann Older, Malka Older, Migrant, novella, queernorm, read harder challenge, Sherlock Retellings ·
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I am the eye in the sky. Looking at you.

Null States by Malka Ann Older

February 22, 2024 by Bea Pants 1 Comment

Null States is the second book in Malka Ann Older’s Centenal Cycle, a political technothriller which takes place in a future where much of the world is divided up into microdemocracies. Overseeing all of them is something called Information which is like if Google monitored everything. This second book takes place some time after the contentions election for which microdemocracy would take over the supermajority in book one. Ken and Mishima, two of my favorite characters, return in this story. We also meet Roz, an […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #CentenalCycle, #MalkaAnnOlder, #microdemocracy, Malka Ann Older

Bea Pants's CBR16 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #CentenalCycle, #MalkaAnnOlder, #microdemocracy, Malka Ann Older ·
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