“There are Unknowns with antimemetic properties . . . There are ideas that cannot be spread. There are entities and phenomena that harvest and consume information, particularly information about themselves. You take a Polaroid photo of one, it’ll never develop. You write a description down with a pen on paper and hand it to someone, but what you’ve written turns out to be hieroglyphs, and nobody can understand them, not even you. You can look directly at one and it won’t even be invisible, but you’ll still perceive nothing there.”

A work of rare conceptual audacity, There Is No Antimemetics Division imagines a war fought not in secret, but in absence—a conflict against entities that erase themselves from perception and memory alike. Here, the enemy is not merely unseen; it is unremembered. Notes become undecipherable. Records fail. Even the act of recognition dissolves a moment after it occurs.

The Antimemetics Division confronts these predators of thought—beings that feed on memory and thrive in the blind spots of human cognition. Armed with protocols, ruthless self-scrutiny, and a quiet courage, its agents wage their war through partial knowledge and hard-won inference, drawing the reader into a labyrinth where epistemology itself becomes a battlefield.

Both cerebral and propulsive, the book approaches cosmic horror through the disciplined lens of science fiction, asking what remains of identity and agency when memory can no longer be trusted.

The Guardian calls it “an unforgettable, mind-bendingly brilliant novel,” while The Washington Post hails it as “a story worthy of Lovecraft—updated for an online and increasingly unhinged age.”

Lean, unsettling, and fiercely original, There Is No Antimemetics Division stands as a meditation on knowledge and oblivion—on how easily the self may be revised, or erased.

[N.B. There’s more info below, but here's a quick link to the waitlist if that’s what you’re looking for.]

There Is No Antimemetics Division Details

There Is No Antimemetics Division will be published in a single state as a limited edition signed by the author and artist. It will be offered for sale when copies are ready to ship and feature:

• Offset printing on premium paper.
• Thoughtful interior design and typography.
• Newly commissioned illustrations.
• A durable, Smyth-sewn binding with a ribbon marker and head and tail bands.
• A foil stamped cloth binding similar to our Collector’s Editions.
• A slipcase at no additional cost.

The Collector’s Edition of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris, hardbound in cloth printed with full-colour artwork.

Availability and Waitlist

We expect the publication price to be approximately US$225 and we are opening up a waitlist so that we can do our best to ensure we have copies available for everyone who would like one.

When the book is ready to ship, sometime later this year or early 2027, purchase links will first be sent to those who filled out the form and they will have a limited time to purchase a copy before it is made available to the public.

Beyond that, we have not yet finalized any details regarding rights, but we will share them in advance of the sale. In other words, even if you have rights now, or plan to have rights later, it’s best to sign up to the waitlist now as we’ll offer it to the waitlist before anyone else.

Sign up to the waitlist by clicking on the button below. It will be closed on February 25th 2026:

SIGN UP TO WAITLIST

Publication Schedule

We’re aiming to publish There Is No Antimemetics Division towards the end of the year or early next year. See the Schedule page for more information on our upcoming releases, including:

• China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station
• Octavia Butler’s Kindred
• Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
• Michael Moorcock’s The Chronicles of Elric
• Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter

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qntm is the internet handle of Sam Hughes, a writer and software developer living in the UK. He has been writing short-form and serial science fiction for most of this millennium; his preferred writing technique is to start from an interesting hypothetical and drive it to breaking point and far beyond.