There Is No Antimemetics Division
2008
- scp foundation
- antimemetics
- postapocalypse
- dystopia
- body horror
- mindbending
The story
(from back cover) An antimeme is *an idea with self-censoring properties*; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it. **Antimemes are real.** Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams... But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war? Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day.
What it’s like
Clinical corporate office light: flat fluorescent overheads, beige carpet, grey cubicle walls, and the bureaucratic blankness of a government annex, with the horror arriving through documents, memos and redacted gaps rather than through the camera. The book is written as a fragmented, dry, deadpan record, so the prose reads like interview transcripts, incident logs and personnel files, precise and clipped, with the dread building in the spaces between what is said and what can be remembered. Its mood is uneasy and cerebral, a slow, disorienting unravelling with flashes of cold body horror and a steady sense that the ground is quietly giving way. The pacing is brisk in short sections but the emotional register stays detached, wry and bleak, following an office worker whose sense of her own memory and place becomes increasingly unreliable. Violence and gore appear in brief, graphic bursts, unsettling more than sensational, and there is no sexual content. It suits a late-night read alone, a sleepless evening, or a puzzle-minded reader who enjoys the feeling of being quietly disoriented. It is for readers who like weird fiction, bureaucratic paranoia and mind-bending structure.
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