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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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.

“Utterly brilliant . . . a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread . . . I can’t recommend it enough.” — Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel.” — The Guardian

An antimeme is an idea that actively resists being known: a threat you cannot record, cannot warn anyone about, and cannot even remember encountering once you look away. The Antimemetics Division exists to contain them — which means its agents work in a department that erases itself from their own minds, over and over, every single day.

Marie Quinn has run the division for years, certain she understands the rules of her impossible job. But when a routine investigation into a new "unknown" starts turning up traces of a memory she can't explain, Quinn is forced to confront the possibility that she has already lost this war once before — and simply forgotten.

Expanded and reimagined from the online serial that built a devoted cult following, There Is No Antimemetics Division is a genre-bending mix of cosmic horror, mystery, and science fiction that asks what's left of a person when their own memories are the battlefield.

It's a novel built to be read twice — once for the vertigo, and once to catch everything you missed the first time.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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.

“Utterly brilliant . . . a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread . . . I can’t recommend it enough.” — Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel.” — The Guardian

An antimeme is an idea that actively resists being known: a threat you cannot record, cannot warn anyone about, and cannot even remember encountering once you look away. The Antimemetics Division exists to contain them — which means its agents work in a department that erases itself from their own minds, over and over, every single day.

Marie Quinn has run the division for years, certain she understands the rules of her impossible job. But when a routine investigation into a new "unknown" starts turning up traces of a memory she can't explain, Quinn is forced to confront the possibility that she has already lost this war once before — and simply forgotten.

Expanded and reimagined from the online serial that built a devoted cult following, There Is No Antimemetics Division is a genre-bending mix of cosmic horror, mystery, and science fiction that asks what's left of a person when their own memories are the battlefield.

It's a novel built to be read twice — once for the vertigo, and once to catch everything you missed the first time.

  • Publisher: Ballantine Books

    Title: There Is No Antimemetics Division

    Author: qntm

    On Sale Date: November 11, 2025

    ISBN 13: 9780593983751

    ISBN 10: 0593983750

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $29.00

    BISAC: Science Fiction / Suspense & Thriller

    Page Count: 288

    Dimensions: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in.

  • qntm (Sam Hughes) is a writer and software developer based in the UK who has spent decades creating short-form and serial science fiction, often exploring hypothetical scenarios to their logical — and unsettling — extremes. There Is No Antimemetics Division began as a serial on the SCP Foundation wiki, where it became one of the most acclaimed works in the site's history, before being reimagined and expanded for this edition.

  • Readers are calling it mind-bending, unsettling, and unforgettable:

    • Readers say the central conceit is the smartest genre idea they've encountered in years.

    • Many describe finishing the book and immediately wanting to start over from page one.

    • Several call it the best print expansion of a web serial they've ever read.

    • Longtime SCP Foundation fans say it does right by the source material while standing completely on its own.

This book is for you if

  • You love cosmic horror with a mystery-thriller structure, in the vein of Annihilation or The Library at Mount Char.

  • You want a genuinely original central idea, taken as far as it can possibly go.

  • You've heard about the SCP Foundation's cult-favorite web serial and want to see it reimagined and expanded for print.

  • You like protagonists who have to piece together a truth that even they themselves buried.

  • You don't mind a book that messes with your head — in the best way.

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