THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION: A Novel
New York: Ballantine Books, 2025. First Printing of the First Hardcover Edition. Octavo, original white boards stamped in black on spine panel, black endpapers. 275 pp. The correct first printing with "1st Printing / First Edition" stated on the copyright page. A few small marks to top page edges else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #314564
“There are Unknowns with antimemetic properties . . . There are ideas that cannot be spread. There are entities and phenomena that harvest and consume information, particularly information about themselves. You take a Polaroid photo of one, it’ll never develop. You write a description down with a pen on paper and hand it to someone, but what you’ve written turns out to be hieroglyphs, and nobody can understand them, not even you. You can look directly at one and it won’t even be invisible, but you’ll still perceive nothing there.”
A work of rare conceptual audacity, There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm imagines a war fought not in secret, but in absence—a conflict against entities that erase themselves from perception and memory alike. Here, the enemy is not merely unseen; it is unremembered. Notes become undecipherable. Records fail. Even the act of recognition dissolves a moment after it occurs.
There Is No Antimemetics Division is a science fiction and horror novel by British author Sam Hughes, who writes under the pen name qntm. The novel was originally published as a web serial novel to the collaborative writing website SCP Wiki from January 31, 2015, through June 13, 2020, as SCP: There Is No Antimemetics Division. It was subsequently released as an independent print-on-demand paperback, before being updated and published as a hardcover by Del Rey Books and Ballantine Books on November 11, 2025 [Lest We Forget?].
Price (CAD): $150.00