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Humanity is under assault by malevolent “antimemes”—ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself—in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel.

They’re all around us, hiding in plain sight.

One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but from this second to the next, you’ll forget that you did. If you managed to jot down a note, the paper would look blank to you afterward.

These entities can feed on your most cherished memories, the things that make you you—and you’ll never even know anything changed.

They can turn you into a living ghost—make it so you’re standing next to your spouse, screaming in their ear, and they won’t know you’re there.

They’re predators equipped with the ultimate camouflage, living black holes for information, able to consume our very memories of their existence.

And they aren’t just feeding on us. They’re invading.

But how do you fight an enemy when you can never even know that you’re at war? How do you contain something you can’t record or remember?

Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

No, this is not your first day.
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“Astonishing. Pitch-perfect cosmic horror—and the pitch will break all the glass in your brain.”—M. R. Carey, #1 international bestselling author of The Girl with Aall the Gifts

“There Is No Antimemetics Division is the coolest, smartest, mind-blowing-est novel to be published this year, and probably for many years to come. It is utterly unique, constantly surprising, genuinely unsettling, and a towering work of speculative fiction that may very well take its place among the best sci-fi novels of the century so far.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

“An addictive, dizzying experience that will make you feel like your brain has been pulled apart and reassembled by a mad scientist. . . . What would be considered a mind-bending twist in another novel happens on every other page of There Is No Antimemetics Division. I’ve never read anything like it, unless I did and just forgot.”—Jason Pargin, New York Times bestselling author of John Dies at the End

“No exaggeration, this is the most imaginative novel I have ever read. It’s compulsively readable and exquisitely mind-blowing from the first paragraph to the last. I enjoyed every word. . . . Highest possible recommendation.”—Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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qntm is the internet handle of Sam Hughes, a writer and software developer living in the UK. He has been writing short-form and serial science fiction for most of this millennium; his preferred writing technique is to start from an interesting hypothetical and drive it to breaking point and far beyond. His website is qntm.org. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Nov. 11 2025
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593983768
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  • Asriel
    5.0 out of 5 stars More with less
    Reviewed in Canada on October 25, 2024
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    Only about halfway through right now, but I've loved it the whole time. The writing is spartan, but effective, and riddled with traps; occasionally qntm will fake you out by making what appears to be an error, that then justifies itself shortly after. It's really fun.

    Note that although this book has since been taken out of print as a rewritten version is forthcoming, the original is still available for free on the SCP Wiki.

    You needn't be an SCP fan already, but it helps a few things slot into place, and lets you approach the book with more context. Missing that context could lead to a feeling of austerity within the setting. If that idea bothers you, wait for V2.
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  • Tobin Elliott
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, mind-bending concepts, but I wanted more story
    Reviewed in Canada on February 19, 2025
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    This one's a 3.5 rounded up. And I almost want to take off a full star for the terrible title, but I won't.

    So, for ideas? This book is just brilliant, and so much fun. The concepts are brain-cracking, and some of the situations are really good. I don't even mind that there's more of an overall concept rather than story. Instead, we're treated with stories that involve the same characters in similar, yet different situations.

    However, there's also a point where it does feel like there's far too many smart people sitting in a secret office talking about all these concepts in a bit too much of a corporate/smart nerd speak, or we're treated to clinically written information laying out the particular mind-wiping threat.

    And, unfortunately, the last story was far too long and outstayed its welcome. I think this book would have benefitted with a single through-line story.

    Having said that though, I flat out loved the concepts, and some of the initial stories were really good.

    Personally, I'd love to see what someone like Jonathan Maberry would do with this.
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  • P.N.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing.
    Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2025
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    Amazing. Words can only spoil.
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  • MW
    5.0 out of 5 stars So good you’ll want to read it twice.
    Reviewed in Canada on January 19, 2021
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    A creature is hunting you - one that can’t harm you until you know it exists, and by then – it’s already too late for you. A monster that devours not your body, but the idea of you, too. It’s a thing whose footprints are the gaps in peoples’ memories where you used to be.

    This book is the best kind of science fiction. It’s the kind that asks a smart question about the way the world could be and then truthfully, thoughtfully, answers it. It explores consequences – turning sometimes complicated scientific scenarios into narratives that leap off of the page and bury themselves at the back of your mind and the bottom of your heart. It fills pages with achingly real characters, places, and things, which don’t just help to talk about the science, but harmonize with each other in a way that practically sings it to you.

    It’s also gross, horrific, and oddly touching. It scratches the same itches that films like Ex Machina and Coherence do for me: stories that are interested in the human ramifications of a smart problem and hope the audience is too. It was a thrilling, refreshing, and thought-provoking ride.
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  • Danny
    5.0 out of 5 stars Banger.
    Reviewed in Canada on December 22, 2024
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    An incredibly read. Introduced new concepts into my brain i’d never thought about. 10/10 fr
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  • John Willson
    4.0 out of 5 stars Impossible to explain
    Reviewed in Canada on December 20, 2023
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    A relentlessly original, mind-bending, present-day sci-fi thriller.

    Recommended for fans of The New Weird, The X-Files, or (of course), of SCP.

    (The title of this review is a play on the idea of an antimeme, by the way.)
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  • Fraser Simons
    3.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but not as substantive as I hoped
    Reviewed in Canada on April 3, 2022
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    The director of an ultra clandestine agency which is in charge of battling antimemes attempts to solve a puzzle which, by its nature is something she cannot remember. We jump around in time at various points in her life as small pieces are made known.

    If you’ve played the video game Control there are some aspects of this that are familiar. Objects that are usually innocuous have other properties that relate to these creatures that are not just in the peripheral, they cannot be perceived at all, without assistance. The agents of The Foundation have a drug that allows them to perceive some of these forces and therefor interact and combat them in various ways. But there are things far more complex than that at play that threaten the world.

    It’s frenetic in pacing for the first half and then almost meandering in the second. It retreads ground sometimes, annoyingly. And the quality of the prose is often uneven. There’s show-don’t-tell problems and a lack of a cohesive structure due to the framing device and, probably, the serialization of the content to begin with on the SCP Foundation Wiki page.

    It can be extremely fun to read at times because of the conceptual ideas and their role in the plot. Everything, essentially, is resolved via deus ex machina. Little to no foreshadowing used allows for any real kind of pleasure in the resolutions though, aside from the ending, which wove together some seemingly disparate threads. Most of the time the reaction I had was that it was an interesting idea and often pretty cinematic. And it kind of has to be because none of the unique content can actually be explained. This allows for a lot of latitude with the author with plot beats and devices, but also gives it a fan fiction feel sometimes and becomes very repetitive.

    Had the end chapter not brought together some of the threads from previous chapters, especially after instituting vastly different pacing and a reframing of point of view midway through, this would have been a 2 star read. Ultimately, while sophomoric and solipsistic—especially with thin characterization—I do feel like it had original ideas and that the macro ones were executed well.
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  • Phillip Tanner
    5.0 out of 5 stars blew my mind
    Reviewed in Canada on June 1, 2024
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    This is a very interesting book and a refreshing mind-warp on scifi themes. As an avid sci-fi reader I was blown away by the novel concepts and imagination used to write this book, it's a must-have for any sci-fi enthusiast. Nice and compact and a pretty short read, perfect for taking on a voyage like a plane or train.
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  • Scott Slemmons
    5.0 out of 5 stars Intricate Plotline and Intense Terror
    Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2023
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    This is a novel about the SCP Foundation, so let's review that briefly. The real-world SCP Foundation is a collaborative fiction project in which many different writers tell stylized horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories through fake academic/governmental/scientific research files about the fictional SCP Foundation, which is a secret international agency tasked with collecting supernatural monsters and phenomena and determining ways to keep them imprisoned or harmless. SCPs can be horrifying creatures, harmless but interesting artifacts, or apocalyptic, world-destroying threats.

    Examples include SCP-173, a concrete statue that can only move when it's not being directly observed, but can move and kill while you're blinking your eyes; SCP-106, a rotting old man who can gruesomely corrupt and decay anything and anyone he touches; SCP-682, a powerful, indestructible reptilian monster that hates and wants to destroy all life; SCP-261, a magic vending machine; SCP-999, an orange blob with a friendly, puppy-like personality that makes people happier through physical contact; and SCP-423, Fred, an entity that can manifest within fictional narratives as minor characters.

    This brings us to qntm's novel, which is set within the SCP Foundation in the rarely-remembered Antimemetics Division. An antimeme is a real thing -- it's something that's easy to forget or hard to remember or memorize. It's why good passwords are so difficult to remember, and why dreams are so easy to forget. But within the SCP Foundation, an antimeme can be a drug administered to cause localized amnesia, a special camoflage that makes something hard to see or remember, or an entity that eats memories. The Antimemetics Division is doused in so many memory-erasing phenomena, high-ranking members of the Foundation have to take special drugs just so they'll remember the division exists. Sometimes, division personnel forget important safety and security protocols.

    And sometimes, you have to forget what the real threats even are, because just knowing them makes you -- and the world -- a target for annihilation.

    When it comes to plots, qntm's work is intricate and unpredictable, so it's hard to reveal too much without cracking the story's foundation. But let's say this: the characters in this book have to battle the most dangerous SCP of all, one easily capable of erasing the universe, and they have to do it without entirely remembering what the threat even is, to keep it from growing even stronger. They've fought this threat more than once -- and they've lost every time, even if no one ever remembers it afterwards. Maybe this time will be different?

    We get some excellent characters mixed in here. There's Marion Wheeler, the head of the Antimemetics Division, extremely intelligent and competent, and still terrified about how badly the odds are stacked against her. There's Adam Wheeler, Marion Wheeler's civilian husband, a talented musician, and a man who seems to be naturally immune to antimemes. There's Paul Kim, a guy who's having a very rough first day on the job, especially because it isn't his first day on the job.

    The settings are also a lot of fun, ranging from fussy foundation board rooms and offices to a tropical island inhabited by gigantic animals that cannot be perceived or remembered to a community concert hall filled with people whose minds have been crushed from existence. The SCP Foundation is a weird, weird place, and it needs weird, weird places inside it.

    And the plot is intricate and unpredictable -- and wonderfully, terribly scary.

    If you love science fiction, horror, and deep, complex plots that don't lead you where you expected to go, this is something you're going to want to read.
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  • renato
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo
    Reviewed in Italy on September 30, 2024
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  • 鶹 Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating read
    Reviewed in India on May 14, 2024
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    The first half was incredible, full of compelling vignettes and concepts. The second half couldn’t live up to the first half, and the ending was a bit anticlimactic, but that didn’t tarnish my experience with the book. Short breezy read. I’d recommend it!
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  • J. Romme
    5.0 out of 5 stars I read this book on one day
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on August 13, 2024
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    Literally bought this book this morning. The story is both very good and enthralling as it is horrifying.

    Fortunately it ends will. No spoilers.
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  • Nuno Miguel Fonseca
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good SF
    Reviewed in Spain on September 16, 2024
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    The story is great. Good SF with fresh ideas and uptakes.
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