There Is No Antimemetics Division

by qntm | Horror & ghost stories
Published 03/09/2026 by Cornerstone (Penguin (Cornerstone)) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 288 pages
127 x 197 x 19mm | 234g

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD'Astonishing' M. R. Carey, author of Infinity Gate'Mind-bendingly brilliant' The Guardian'Compulsively readable, breathtakingly inventive.' SFX-----------------An antimeme is an entity with self-censoring properties. Some are benign; but others, less so…But how do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight against an enemy when you can never even know that you're at war?WELCOME TO THE ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION.

NO, THIS IS NOT YOUR FIRST DAY.

-----------------‘A hugely entertaining, super smart, witty novel that is also nerve-shreddingly terrifying… a timely book that is also one for the ages.’ Antonia Hodgson, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Raven Scholar‘Utterly unique, constantly surprising, genuinely unsettling... 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