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Explore membershipsThere Is No Antimemetics Division
A Novel
Narrator
Rebecca Calder
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Length
8 hours 47 minutes
Language
English
Bookseller recommendation
“I needed to piece my brain together a little bit after finishing this book. It was shattered into at least 1000 pieces and that takes some time to rearrange back into place. There Is No Antimemetics Division is an absolute ride from front to back and will keep you on the precipice of sanity the entire time. It's a helter-skelter blend of nonlinear narrative, unreliable narration, timeline uncertainty, memory destruction, and a war we cannot remember. There are moments that will simultaneously break your heart and strike fear into your very core. I, personally, enjoy experiencing those feelings all at once as my mind explodes, so this was a very easy 10/10 for me.”
— Abigail • E. Shaver, bookseller
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“In this version of Earth, there is only one wall between humanity's mental decay and the minimally investigated entities that revolt against our understanding of science itself: the Agency, though most specifically, the Antimemetics Division. But when the world unravels and a cosmic horror that hates humanity's collective existence manifests, it turns our timeline into the most elongated worst day ever, complete with every monster hiding under your bed and in the closet. Author qntm's acerbic wit and knife-sharp skill shine through a combination of narrator Rebecca Calder's calm and collected audio and the story itself. Dark as space and enticing in its horror, this is an audio feast for the mind, sure to devour every stray thought you've ever entertained about what hides in the shadows with the lingering sensation of the wrongness of our version of the universe and the hope contained within, even when all truly is lost.”
— Cy • Village Books
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“Oh. My. God. I was ENTHRALLED the entire time. You start with "Oh, this is a cool concept. I like following around these people who have such an interesting job." And then, bam! It becomes so much more. I also thought the way that they did the redacted parts of the book was so cool; it worked really well. I don't want to say much more because I think it's best to go into this as blind as possible, but if you love mind-twisty, fascinating, well-thought-out science fiction, you HAVE to read this. ”
— Amelia • Queen Takes Book
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“I cannot say enough, good things about this book. It is uniquely disturbing in a way that you can’t get out of your skin, but also extremely hopeful. The thrillers are exciting, The characters are enticing and the villain is larger than life. There are very few books that can only be written by one person on the planet and this is one of those books. Qntm aka Sam Hughes, is deep in his bag. I can’t wait to see you guys next”
— H Michel • Inklings Book Shoppe
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“This was such a delight to listen to. I love a book that can establish a consistent logic and still repeatedly surprise me, scare me, and make me laugh. This story felt as though some of the best parts of The Magnus Archives and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy had a collaboration. ”
— Elliot • The Brewster Book Store
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“If you like books that make you stare at the wall for an hour after finishing, wondering "what the f**k did I just read?" this is the book for you. ”
— Lisa • Bailey Books
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“What a mind-bending read. Fighting a war against an evil you can’t remember that hides in plain sight. This book was one wild ride.”
— Avarri • Bookworm of Edwards
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“Okay, this book completely blew my mind. An unsettling blend of science fiction and cosmic horror that will be plaguing my nightmares…but was totally worth it! Imagine trying to fight a monster you can’t even remember exists—that’s basically this book. There Is No Antimemetics Division is wild, confusing (in the best way), and fascinating. It’s like a puzzle where what’s at stake is your sanity. I loved being pulled into this strange, eerie world. Truly unforgettable. ”
— Taylor • Bookshop Santa Cruz
Summary
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 GuardianThey’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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Audiobook details
Author:
qntm
Narrator:
Rebecca Calder
ISBN:
9798217158881
Length:
8 hours 47 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date:
November 11, 2025
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#52 Overall
Genre rank:
#2 in Horror
Reviews
“[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
“[A] superlative performance . . . in a class with anything by HPL, or Ligotti, or Clark Ashton Smith, or the more surreal stories by Ballard . . . QNTM has succeeded in infusing his tale with the identity confusion and paranoia of PKD’s A Scanner Darkly; with the esoteric paradigm-shattering illogic of Max Barry’s Lexicon; and with the transgalactic horrors of Colin Wilson’s The Mind Parasites.”—Locus
“Utterly brilliant . . . [The] synopsis barely scratches the surfaces of the baroque weirdness of There Is No Antimemetics Division, a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread. In a year that featured multiple novels about shared memories, this is a story about the horror of forgetting. . . . I can’t recommend it enough.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“A stone-cold cosmic horror classic about a department trying to combat anomalous beings whose very nature makes them impossible to see or remember encountering . . . a incredible read.”—Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo Award–winning author of Children of Time and Service Model
“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 Expand reviews
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