Mark Cofta's Reviews > Engines of Oblivion

This was an absorbing and challenging read, a second plunge into the universe of Osborne's Architect of Memory. The human future is controlled by corporations that award citizenship rights and privileges to a select few (primarily families of corporate leaders) and control all others as serfs. Our heroine Natalie, a supporting character in the first novel, struggles to understand her company's experiments with alien technology and human memory. I felt a little overwhelmed by Osborne's jargon at times but warmed to Natalie and was pleasantly surprised by the story's many twists. Like Emma Newman's Atlas novels, Osborne features strong, independent women characters in a harsh future controlled by a rich elite (sort of where we're headed, right?), but gives us reasons to hope.