Why read There Is No Antimemetics Division?

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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…

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2 authors picked There Is No Antimemetics Division as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Eric Kay

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This book is my favorite indie sci-fi novel. It starts with a broken and jumpy storyline that coalesces inwardly as the characters fight a cataclysmic horror. The premise is there are ideas, like those randomly generated passwords, that are simply very hard for a person to remember.

I read this during the COVID craziness. It was precisely why I write, as an escape from the media trying to drag you down with infinite worry. Rest, relax, and enjoy a fun story of someone else’s trials.

This is indie sci-fi at its best. It was a major inspiration and may have…

From Eric's list on Sci-Fi mindbenders that will have you questioning everything.

Scotto Moore

Author

I love books that aren’t afraid to serially explode their own core conceits in the pursuit of absurd escalation.

When I wrote plays, I developed a loose guideline for myself: the audience shouldn’t be able to predict act two just because they’ve seen act one. This book pulls that off but after almost every chapter. Antimemes are non-viral entities, slippery and elusive tulpas that are impossible to remember when you’re not in their presence, and the moment you realize they exist, they realize you exist, which is problematic in an increasingly bizarre number of ways.

This interconnected series of stories…

From Scotto's list on SFF that take an improbable premise and go nuts.