Karen Osborne’s debut science fiction novel,
Architects of Memory, came out in September last year. The pandemic has done a number on my ability to recall detail, so only impressions remain: I enjoyed it, I remember, even if it had a few too many sudden revelations, betrayals, and double-/triple-crosses for me to entirely follow.
Engines of Oblivion is a direct sequel to
Architects of Memory, albeit from a different point of view.
[Spoilers for
Where
Architects of Memory hewed close to the perspective of Ashlan Jackson, dying of an incurable illness that—it transpired—was turning her into a weapon that many of the corporate polities that rule over the human-occupied galaxy would do nearly anything to possess,