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Astonishing. Pitch-perfect cosmic horror – and the pitch will break all the glass in your brain.

The coolest, smartest, mind-blowingest novel to be published this year, and probably for many years to come. It is utterly unique, constantly surprising, genuinely unsettling, and a towering work of speculative fiction that may very well take its place among the best sci-fi novels of the century so far.

Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter

An addictive, dizzying experience that will make you feel like your brain has been pulled apart and reassembled by a mad scientist. What would be considered a mind-bending twist in another novel happens on every other page of There Is No Antimemetics Division. I've never read anything like it, unless I did and just forgot.

Jason Pargin, New York Times Bestselling author of John Dies at the End

No exaggeration, this is the most imaginative novel I have ever read.  It's compulsively readable and exquisitely mind-blowing from the first paragraph to the last. I enjoyed every word. Highest possible recommendation.

Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char

An antimeme is an entity with self-censoring properties. Some are benign; but others, less so… 
 
How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight 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.

Humanity is under assault by malevolent "antimemes"--ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself - in this wickedly brain-bending tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel. 
 
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 afterwards. 
 
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 that you're standing next to your spouse, screaming in their ear, and they won't know you're there. 
 
They are the perfect predators, equipped with the ultimate camouflage - the ability to wipe out memories of their own 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.

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 afterwards. 
 
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 that you're standing next to your spouse, screaming in their ear, and they won't know you're there. 
 
They are the perfect predators, equipped with the ultimate camouflage - the ability to wipe out memories of their own 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?

qntm is the internet handle of Sam Hughes, a writer and software developer living in the UK. He has been writing short-form and serial science fiction for most of this millennium; his preferred writing technique is to start from an interesting hypothetical and drive it to breaking point and far beyond. His website is qntm.org.

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Astonishing. Pitch-perfect cosmic horror – and the pitch will break all the glass in your brain.

No exaggeration, this is the most imaginative novel I have ever read. It's compulsively readable and exquisitely mind-blowing from the first paragraph to the last. I enjoyed every word. Highest possible recommendation.

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