There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel
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Nov 2025 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Rebecca Calder
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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.
“Utterly brilliant . . . a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread . . . I can’t recommend it enough.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel.”—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.
“Utterly brilliant . . . a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread . . . I can’t recommend it enough.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“[An] unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel.”—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.
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.
“Utterly brilliant . . . a da...
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Biglegsbigteeth
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July 18, 2026
I was expecting "The Organization" would take a while to get used to over "The Foundation" of the original version, but I got used to it faster than I anticipated. This audiobook is my second time through this story; the first time was reading the original tales on the SCP Wiki. Many elements in this version are the same, but on my listen through the audiobook some elements that were copied over didn't quite have the same hit for me. I can't tell if it's because this is an audiobook, or that I've already seen it before. But either way, this is still the excellent writing I remember. If you read the original tales, some chapters have been reorganized. The story has been made more linear so now there's only, like, one flashback chapter in the third act instead of it being 50% flashbacks. Some sentences have been reworded. Some elements tweaked. The third act got very hefty changes, but on a macro scale it's still similar. As for a review of the content itself... I hit the character limit
Aaron Little
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July 14, 2026
With my own memory issues, this book will always carry a special place in my heart. But this was an immediately engaging story. There are numerous stories that use the trope of "secret organization studies X," but this one has such a fresh take on it, where X [REDACTED] impossible to perceive and can make you impossible t [REDACTED].
Chris Chris
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March 17, 2026
A wild story from start to finish -- my favorite book of 2025 purely because I wasn't expecting such an engaging ride. I didn't know how the redacted texts would be translated, but it works here.
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