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Flur traveled across the stars to make first contact with the Cyclopes, hoping to forge a peace treaty between humanity and the first sentient aliens they''ve discovered. She''s undergone careful training and study to prepare for this moment. But what if her approach is too human?At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Read Infomocracy, the first book in Campbell Award finalist Malka Older''s groundbreaking cyberpunk political thriller series The Centenal Cycle, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series, and the novel NPR called "Kinetic and gripping."• A Locus Award Finalist for Best First Novel• The book The Huffington Post called "one of the greatest literary debuts in recent history"• One of Kirkus'' "Best Fiction of 2016"• One of The Washington Post''s "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016"• One of Book Riot''s "Best Books of 2016 So Far"It''s been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything''s on the line.With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the pax democratica. For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain?Infomocracy is Malka Older''s debut novel.THE CENTENAL CYCLEBook 1: InfomocracyBook 2: Null StatesBook 3: State TectonicsPRAISE FOR INFOMOCRACY“A fast-paced, post-cyberpunk political thriller... If you always wanted to put The West Wing in a particle accelerator with Snow Crash to see what would happen, read this book.” —Max Gladstone, author of Last First Snow"Smart, ambitious, bursting with provocative extrapolations, Infomocracy is the big-data-big-ideas-techno-analytical-microdemoglobal-post-everything political thriller we''ve been waiting for." —Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings"In the mid-21st century, your biggest threat isn’t Artificial Intelligence—it’s other people. Yet the passionate, partisan, political and ultimately fallible men and women fighting for their beliefs are also Infomocracy’s greatest hope. An inspiring book about what we frail humans could still achieve, if we learn to work together." —Karl Schroeder, author of Lockstep and the Virga sagaAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"Kinetic and gripping" —NPR on InfomocracyNull States continues Campbell Award finalist Malka Older''s Hugo Centenal Cycle, the near-future science fiction trilogy beginning with Infomocracy that is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series• The book The Huffington Post called "one of the greatest literary debuts in recent history"• Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, The Verge, Flavorwire, Kirkus, and Book Riot• A Locus Award Finalist for Best First NovelThe future of democracy is about to implode.After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order. In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches plans to bring microdemocracy to its knees. In Central Asia, a sprawling war among archaic states threatens to explode into a global crisis. And across the world, a shadowy plot is growing, threatening to strangle Information with the reins of power.THE CENTENAL CYCLEBook 1: InfomocracyBook 2: Null StatesBook 3: State TectonicsAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

One of the best books of 2018, according to Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Review of Books, and BookRiot.Campbell Award finalist Malka Older''s State Tectonics concludes The Centenal Cycle, the cyberpunk poltical thriller series that began with Infomocracy and is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series.The future of democracy must evolve or die.The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it''s time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking Information''s network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers, and revolutionaries sharpen their knives in the shadows. And Information''s best agents question whether the data monopoly they''ve served all their lives is worth saving, or whether it''s time to burn the world down and start anew.The Centenal Cycle#1 Infomocracy#2 Null States#3 State TectonicsAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Campbell Award finalist Malka Older''s State Tectonics concludes The Centenal Cycle, the cyberpunk poltical thriller series that began with Infomocracy.The future of democracy must evolve or die.The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it''s time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking Information''s network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers, and revolutionaries sharpen their knives in the shadows. And Information''s best agents question whether the data monopoly they''ve served all their lives is worth saving, or whether it''s time to burn the world down and start anew.The Centenal Cycle#1 Infomocracy#2 Null States#3 State Tectonics

The next entry in the multi-award-nominated cozy space-opera mystery series The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti!When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who’s up for a prestigious academic position at a rival Jovian university but has been accused of plagiarism on the eve of her defense—Pleiti agrees to investigate the matter.Even if she has to do it without Mossa, her partner in more ways than one. Even if she’s still reeling from Mossa’s sudden isolation and bewildering rejection.Yet what appears to be a case of an attempted reputational smearing devolves into something decidedly more dangerous—and possibly deadly.The Investigations of Mossa and PleitiThe Mimicking of Known SuccessesThe Imposition of Unnecessary ObstaclesThe Potency of Ungovernable ImpulsesThe Centenal CycleInfomocracyNull StatesState TectonicsAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

“Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Successes absolutely is both of those things. An utter triumph.”—Charlie Jane AndersA Hugo Award nominee for Best NovellaA Nebula Award nominee for Best NovellaAn Ignyte Award nominee for Best NovellaA Locus Award nominee for Best NovellaA Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction of the Year PickA Library Journal Best SF/F of the Year PickA Book Riot Best Mystery and Science Fiction of the Year PickAn Autostraddle Best Science Fiction of the Year PickA Most Anticipated in 2023 Pick for Today.com | Buzzfeed | Polygon | Book Riot | Ms. MagazineThe Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university—and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems.Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti’s assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake—and, perhaps, their futures, together.The Centenal Cycle by Malka OlderInfomocracyNull StatesState TectonicsAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Named a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2024 by EsquireInvestigator 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 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.The Investigations of Mossa and PleitiThe Mimicking of Known SuccessesThe Imposition of Unnecessary ObstaclesThe Centenal CycleInfomocracyNull StatesState TectonicsAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.

On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university―and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems.

Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti’s assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake―and, perhaps, their futures, together.