Name: Doug Belshaw's review of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
Item: There Is No Antimemetics Division
Rating: 4
Author: Doug Belshaw

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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 tried: 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. ----- This ebook is an official release by me, qntm from the SCP Foundation wiki! PM me if you require confirmation. This ebook collects all of my Antimemetics Division fiction: SCP-055, SCP-2256 and the complete serials There Is No Antimemetics Division and Five Five Five Five Five.

There Is No Antimemetics Division

Doug Belshaw

This is the best book I‘ve read in a while! Mind-boggling and thought-provoking and so, so different.

Kai Wissler

How to survive a fight with an adversary that you forget?

Christopher Hugentobler

If one is familiar (and tends to like the entries of) with the foundation project, this is likely a perfect novella both in concept and literary approach. If not, I still think that it worth the quick read and it is worth noting that the entire thing is free to read at the scp foundation wiki. I gather that with the original print run closing out that there will be a new printing in 2025 with additional materials and I am eager to obtain a physical copy as well as explore extra memetic flesh.

This was genuinely enjoyable and well-written science fiction with a lofty but very well executed idea born from the context of the SCP approach and canon. I only give it less than five stars due to knowing that it used to be five stars but something was cut and I don't recall what it was.

Jon Aho

If one is familiar (and tends to like the entries of) with the foundation project, this is likely a perfect novella both in concept and literary approach. If not, I still think that it worth the quick read and it is worth noting that the entire thing is free to read at the scp foundation wiki. I gather that with the original print run closing out that there will be a new printing in 2025 with additional materials and I am eager to obtain a physical copy as well as explore extra memetic flesh.
This was genuinely enjoyable and well-written science fiction with a lofty but very well executed idea born from the context of the SCP approach and canon. I only give it less than five stars due to knowing that it used to be five stars but something was cut and I don't recall what it was.

Ghee

Gavin

Smooth, poignant, clever, with almost none of its original context weighing it down. (It is an auteur work appended to the 5000 page group novel “SCP”.)

The redactions of “Ará Orún” make an excellent poem.

Misha

This book is very scary and somewhat hazardous. A week afterward, I am finding myself disturbed that metaphysics and epistemology might not work as expected, that reality is wild/pathological (in the mathematical sense of the words)... I am not sure what the containment policy should be and how safe it is to further explore weird ideas about time, causality, and perception.

Per standard protocol: I am Misha, today is 2021-10-19; I do not intend to intervene and we will see if philosophical unrest will go away on its own.

Matthew Royal

** spoiler alert **
           If you like Charles Stross's "Atrocity Archives" or Doctor Who's "The Silence" story arc, you're going to love "There Is No Antimemetics Division".

It explores the idea of what would an anti-meme war look like. I understand that the story was originally serialized on a blog, but it fits together pretty well. The final act was great, but just shy of mind-blowing.

I give 5 stars sparingly, but I knew this deserved one just 50 pages in. Overall, a great addition to my new sci-fi canon, because this story stays with me. I think about it during the day, and I feel like it shifts my perspective in an interesting way. I intended to ship it to my fellow-sci-fi-loving mom after I was done, but it's got more Lovecraftian gore and body horror than she'd like.

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