A Thing I’ve Read 14/2026: There is no Antimemetics Division, by qntm
This was originally an SCP fan-fiction, for proper commercial publication the serial number got filed off, but it’s very much an SCP fiction.
As such, it deals with the doings of a secret organisation dealing with Unknows, strange and supernatural phenomena, specifically with the Organisation’s division of Antimemetics, dealing with Concept Eaters, Anti-Ideas, and the holes in our perception, and with what happens if things go bump in the night but nobody is able to notice.
I’m a bit torn about this one: I adore theme and setting, but I do not like some of the writing choices made, the sudden thematic shift in the middle and the deus-ex-machina resolution. However, it does work as a story, so if what-if-weird-stuff is your thing, have a go.
I’ve consciously decided against cognitohazard-jokes or random censorship for readability, and against a “this book does not exist”-joke because I’d need to write it and cannot be bothered.
There is nothing beyond the MORE-tag.
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Okay, no, seriously: SPOILERS BELOW.
I really did not like the shift from supernatural thriller to post apocalyptic survival story, even though within the narrative it at least works out. Less I like the author killing off the female main character, only to have her put-on-a-bus (which happens for reasonable in-story reasons, BUT STILL) ex-husband with his very lucky once in a trillion mind that allows him to withstand the Big Bad Entity to wander through the postapocalyptic waste, to then deus-ex-machina her back into “existence” to solve the plot.
Again, not saying the narrative doesn’t work, but I Do Not Like the way it does.