There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

Can you tell us a little bit conceptually about the idea of antimemes? What is an anti-meme? Uri Bram: Your latest book-which is wonderful-is called There Is No Antimemetics Division. Here, QNTM speaks to the Browser's Uri Bram about collaborative fiction, why people with deep and very specific expertise are often great storytellers, and the surprising subjectivity of finding right answers in software development. tee hee.QNTM is a software engineer and the author of There Is No Antimemetics Division. Highly recommended for those out there looking for a brain twisting puzzle go ahead and read TINAD before reading detailed reviews.Ģ: within 6 guesses identifying a 5 letter wordġ: to maliciously drive innocent folk into batshit crazyģ: an obsessive competition of folk hellbent upon solving a meaningless puzzle but how can I pass up an opportunity to 'reveal' such awful 'hidden truths'? I'm terrified to read anything else you've written for fear of being dragged down another rabbit hole of doubting basics of humanity's shared reality. ugh!įor the sake of mercy do not write a sequel! took days for me to stop trying to remember whatever it was I might have forgotten. There's that annoying itch between shoulder blades and then there's 'There Is No Antimemetics Division' (TINAD) which was an itch between my frontal lobes. So I hope you'll extend a warm welcome to qntm. Oh, and (shameless promotional moment) we now share a literary agent, so hopefully you'll be reading more of his books soon. I've been a fan of his fascinating, cerebral writing for some time particularly his short horrifying and brilliant short story Lena (which I've mentioned in various comment threads here previously). His notable personal software projects include HATETRIS and Absurdle, adversarial takes on Tetris and Wordle respectively. His fifth book, 2022's Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories, collects the highlights of his short fiction, notably 'Lena'. There Is No Antimemetics Division originated as a series of tales set in the collaborative sci-fi/horror universe of the SCP Foundation. Ed, Fine Structure and Ra were first posted on the persistently uncategorisable mid-2000s Web 2.0 project, Everything2.

He has self-published five books so far, the first four of which are novel-length serials originally born on the web. Qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium.

My first new year's resolution for 2023 is to start inviting guest bloggers to post on my blog again-I slackened off after 2018-so here we are!įirst up in 2023 is qntm.

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm