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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