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Architects of Memory

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by Karen Osborne


  Twenty-Five and her crew have been around, in some form or another, since my time at Nazareth College. So, to the legion of writers and creatives who believed in me and challenged me to be better all these years, a very tight group hug: Viable Paradise 20, Clarion UCSD ’17, the Maryland Space Opera Collective, the Orlando Writing League, #Broken_Dagger, 38th Argo, the Niskayuna Acting Troupe, the Isle of Write, the ’02–’07 staff of The Evangelist, and my current fabulous local writing circle in Baltimore, including Sarah Pinsker, Kellan Szpara, Michelle Appel, and Christopher Rose.

  Thank you to the many writing mentors who encouraged me along the way, including James Breig, Kate Blain, James Edgar, Mary Van Keuren, Sherwood Smith, Denise O’Toole Kelly, Maryellen Potts, Virginia Skinner-Linnenberg, and Sr. Monica Weis; to my amazing parents, Richard and Sandra Dietlein, who had no idea what they were getting into when they bought me that word processor in 1992; to my brother, Michael Dietlein, my original collaborator and partner in crime; and to my daughter, Claire, my North Star.

  And, finally, to my husband, Glenn, who believed in me from Day One of this long journey: thank you for helping me finish my own version of the Dopey Challenge. Love you always.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  KAREN OSBORNE is a speculative fiction writer and visual storyteller from Baltimore. She is a graduate of Viable Paradise and the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and has won awards for her news and opinion writing in New York, Florida, and Maryland. Her short fiction appears in Escape Pod and is forthcoming in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Architects of Memory is her debut SF novel. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY

  Copyright © 2020 by Karen Osborne

  All rights reserved.

  Cover art by Mike Heath

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  ISBN 978-1-250-21547-5 (trade paperback)

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