There is No Antimemetics Division

Amber Herbert reviewed There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

A Thought Provoking Read That Ends In a Rush

4 stars

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.

Library Liberty Zed reviewed There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

How to write a book without memory

4 stars

I did not know the SCP Wiki nor the content of the book. Somewhere here on bookwyrm I was intrigued by the title. I really liked the musings on memory, the connection to oneself, but also on institutional memory. Recommened for every science fiction fan!

loppear reviewed There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

is SCP its own genre?

4 stars

Unnerving and fragmentary, very satisfying exploration around questions of memory, trust, and institutional decay.

Stephen reviewed There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

Good, but too much in one go

4 stars

I should have read this slower, the book is fine. SCP lit in long form, done well. All creatures that cause you to forget them, or other things. It starts as short stories, and then the links start appearing.

Uses some Memento backwards story telling to keep the audience in the right mind frame. Too bleak for me by the end.