There Is No Antimemetics Division

A Novel

De: qntm

Narrado por: 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.

“Inventively creepy . . . One of the more unique pieces of literature in recent memory [and] a story worthy of Lovecraft.”—The Washington Post

“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel . . . There have been stories before about mysterious alien entities existing, hidden, within our world, and secret government departments tasked with protecting humanity. This debut pushes the idea to the most terrifying extreme.”—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.

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“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel . . . There have been stories before about mysterious alien entities existing, hidden, within our world, and secret government departments tasked with protecting humanity. This debut pushes the idea to the most terrifying extreme.”—The Guardian

“Astonishing. Pitch-perfect cosmic horror—and the pitch will break all the glass in your brain.”—M. R. Carey, #1 international bestselling author of The Girl with Aall the Gifts

“There Is No Antimemetics Division is the coolest, smartest, mind-blowing-est 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

“Gripping, thrilling cosmic horror . . . Read it, and don’t forget it.”—Reactor

“A hugely entertaining, super smart, witty novel that is also nerve-shreddingly terrifying. While it’s packed with ideas, it puts human connection at its core, with an ending that is both tense and moving. It brought to mind The Lathe of Heaven and The Kraken Wakes—a timely book that is also one for the ages.”—Antonia Hodgson, author of The Raven Scholar, in Gizmodo

“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

Far surpassed expectations

There Is No Antimemetics Division ended up being one of the most memorable listens I’ve had in a long time. It’s not just that the story is different—though it absolutely is—it’s that the ideas behind it feel like they’re tickling your brain in all the right weird ways. The whole concept of things you can’t remember even while they’re happening/just after they’ve happened is handled so cleverly that I caught myself pausing the audiobook just to think about it.

The horror isn’t loud or dramatic; it’s the slow, creeping kind that gets under your skin before you notice it’s there. The narrator does an incredible job with that atmosphere, making some scenes feel almost claustrophobic in the best possible way.

What really surprised me was how thoughtful the story is. It’s full of these small, sharp ideas about memory, perception, and how much we rely on our own minds without ever questioning them. It’s the kind of book that leaves you thinking long after you’ve finished, without feeling like it’s lecturing you.

If you’re looking for something genuinely fresh—something smart, eerie, and a lotta bit mind-bending—this is absolutely worth the listen.

Great book with very annoying sound effects

Reader is good, story is great, sound effects are ruining it. Just few more words to pass the minimum limit

A very unique concept that was fully explored with an interesting main character that we track through the story.

This book was quite fascinating, both in positive and negative ways. The story uses memory manipulation as one of its main ideas, the concept that there's an entire universe that exists outside our perceptions, purely by our inability to remember seeing it. The main antagonist is a truly interesting and terrifying conceptually, the personification of memory itself. On top of that, an interesting idea was had, where parts of the story are deliberately redacted, maybe by the fictional Organization, or maybe by the inability to remember those parts of the story. However, the theme of ideation and redaction is also part of my biggest criticism. The redactions end up feeling somewhat gimmicky, as, to my memory, the redactions are never used to cover up information to be revealed later, only existing as flavor to cover up fluff information, like locations of Organization bases of operations or parts of conversations between characters, or, most frustratingly, the entire start of the 3rd act. The transition to the final act of the story is so jarring and hard to listen to, as 90 percent of it is "redacted." It feels like the writer didn't know how to describe the conceptual idea of the main threat coming into fruition, so they just "redact" that information until suddenly, we're brought back into it, years later. The book can tend to oscillate pretty rapidly between confusingly vague or underexplored and chillingly descriptive and wildly creative, sometimes within the same scene.

Loved it.

I love this author and loved every sentence of this book. Its exactly what you'd want.

Extremely good & entertaining sci-fi

This one will stick with you. Amazing concepts. Just get it! I promise you won’t regret it.