Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne (Tor 978-1-250-21547-5, $17.99, 352pp, tp) September 2020. Cover by Mike Heath. Of late, my desire and ability to read fiction has been at a low ebb. In every professional reviewer’s career, there comes a point – or perhaps more than one – where much that is purported to be fresh and new seems to be tired, quotidian, even overdone; or worse, can’t hold a candle to something you saw several years ago, and suffers greatly by comparison. Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne’s debut novel, is the first piece of SFF I’ve enjoyed reading for over a month. I read it in one sitting, in two hours of an afternoon, and it compelled my attention until I was done.