There Is No Antimemetics Division

A Novel

By: qntm

Narrated by: Rebecca Calder

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

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.

censorship static is terrible

You have to remaster this. the staticky censorship is at a volume that is obnoxious and truly terrible. you cannot listen to this safely with headphones. I have to constantly adjust volume.

For fans of SCP and The Magnus Archives

Memetics and Antimemetics are difficult topics to write about beyond SCP style files and short stories and make the story compelling. the first half of the book excels at this, while the second half feels so disjointed and irregular it makes it a chore at points to continue.
The warped sound effects, again, are used tastefully at first, but become over saturating and at one point there's a solid two minutes that remind me of the hallucinagenic time warp scene from A Space Oddysey where nothing of note can be heard between the jarring and frankly annoying sound effects that the sound engineer seems to think are his magnus opus.
the narration is skillful and easy to listen to, but I find the lack of differing cadence between characters makes it hard to discern who is speaking. One narrator only has one voice, understandably, but people speak with different lilt and measure and a practice of that could make the discussions shine.

it had me in the first half absolutely spellbound, but with two hours left to go, I am deciding whether to continue or cut and run.

Fantastic

Really fun, mind-bending (literally) sci-fi. I'm only tangentially acquainted with SCPs but had no trouble understanding and following this story. I enjoyed it immensely and found myself crying in at least 3 places: when <REDACTED> finally <REDACTED>, when <REDACTED> itself and when the <REDACTED> <REDACTED> <REDACTED>.

Great stuff.

Poor Audible sound

Listened on two platforms and the other Platform had the same narrator and it sounded much more deep and rich and layered. This book is incredible and deserves better.

Wonderful find

Got it on a whim, fueled by old SCP nostalgia. Was very impressed, it’s a great mix of lowbrow pulp sci-fi and a steady drip of mind-melting weirdness like you’d expect from a good Nolan film or even Evangelion. Worth a try!