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A cozy sff mystery novella that is set in the future but feels like it’s set in the past.

The Mimicking of Known Successes (Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Older

July 11, 2024 by narfna 6 Comments

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 27/30 This was really good! I loved the vibes and the writing and the setting. Definitely reading book two. I’m honestly surprised how much I liked this. It’s really hard to find great, vibesy sci-fi these days. A lot of sff authors go for the colder, more depressing, gritty machine-like futures, I think forgetting that humans like to be COMFY. Even though this book is set after humans have colonized Jupiter (of all places); the humans here […]

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cozy, cozy sci-fi, Holmesian, Malka Older, Mossa and Pleiti, mysteries, narfna, novellas, sci-fi, sff, The Mimicking of Known Successes

narfna's CBR16 Review No:49 · Genres: Featured, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cozy, cozy sci-fi, Holmesian, Malka Older, Mossa and Pleiti, mysteries, narfna, novellas, sci-fi, sff, The Mimicking of Known Successes ·
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So my new favorite author is. . . Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

February 8, 2019 by KimMiE" 6 Comments

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is well-known for being the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, a United States Cultural Ambassador, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom under President Barack Obama. He is also a New York Times bestselling author and, less famously but most pertinently for our purposes, an avid Holmesian. The day he decided to team with Anna Waterhouse to pen a series of novels starring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s less renowned Holmes brother, my world became […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Anna Waterhouse, cbr11, Holmesian, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, KimMiE", Sherlock Holmes

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Anna Waterhouse, cbr11, Holmesian, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, KimMiE", Sherlock Holmes ·
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