There is No Antimemetics Division

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paper back, 227 pages

Published Dec. 24, 2020 by SCP Foundation Wiki.

ISBN:
979-8-7215-0378-8
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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.

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reviewed There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

A Thought Provoking Read That Ends In a Rush

There's a lot to love about this book. From its heady themes to redactions and inserted reports, it's hard not to get sucked into the Antimemetics Division alongside the characters. The Unknowns are intriguing, unique, and often difficult to grok. The complexity of the Unknowns, the memory manipulation, and the physicality of U-3125 are my kind of science fiction. The reason this read didn't rank higher is because the last quarter of the book is messy and in many ways anticlimactic compared to everything that came before. I was hoping for a crazy, mind-bending finale and got something much less interesting.