There Is No Antimemetics Division

by

Hardcover, 209 pages

English language

Published Jan. 23, 2021 by Independently Published.

ISBN:
9798514063031

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5 stars (2 reviews)

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties ; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams... But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war? Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day.

2 editions

reviewed There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

What Antimemetics Division?

5 stars

This was a wild read. I didn't know about the SCP wiki before, I found this book by chance via a Mastodon review someone posted. It sounded interesting enough, a little bit like the John Dies At The End novels, maybe without the humor.

The premise of ideas invading human space and these "beings" (if you can call them that) being all around us, just invisible, is pretty interesting. Deliberately purging your memory so these ideas cannot invade your brain while simultaneously trying to solve the problem of how to save humankind, even more so. An enjoyable read if you like sci-fi with more than a touch of horror mixed in.

reviewed There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

Good, but too much in one go

4 stars

I should have read this slower, the book is fine. SCP lit in long form, done well. All creatures that cause you to forget them, or other things. It starts as short stories, and then the links start appearing.

Uses some Memento backwards story telling to keep the audience in the right mind frame. Too bleak for me by the end.