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I finished There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm last night. While the science fiction was cool, I had some difficulty because the timelines appeared to be jumping around. I guess it was thematic in the sense that our memories are/were incomplete similar to how a character might experience them in-story. I don’t read a whole lot of cosmic horror stuff, so the grandness of some of the descriptions felt different as though I were watching someone else play Shadow of the Colossus.
I’ve had 1Q84, Book 3 sitting on my desk begging and taunting me to finish it, so I might just get to that once and for all.
I also just read There Is No Antimemetics Divison and absolutely loved it. I get what you mean about the timelines but as an avid SCP content consumer I was pretty comfortable with it. It's worth noting that the book is pretty much a compilation of what was originally a more serial publication so that probably contributed to the breaks.
Hold up. There’s more SCP content? Is there prerequisite reading that would’ve helped the story make more sense for me?
Oh boy, you're in for a ride if you choose to go down this road lol. So the SCP Foundation is a wiki style serial and collaborative writing project that has been going strong since 2008. It's a sort of spinoff of the creepypasta genre of web serial work that has a semi-codified structure. There are tens of thousands of entries at this point and the range of topics and styles is immense. There are some authors that have done far more work than others and have a sort of established mini-lore canonization that sometimes conflicts with other authors and sometimes fits nicely within them. It's a true grab-bag of content so it's hard to say where to begin but memtics and anti-memetics play an ENORMOUS role in many many many of the stories and concepts. edit: when this book was published as a book, they kind of changed some things around so it isnt technically part of the foundation, hence why they say "the organization" instead
FURTHER EDIT (sorry not sorry): here is a link to an entry by qntm that serves as a basis for the beginning of what became the book, but in true SCP format meaning it is written as an entry in a government style database and follows the established format of first discussing the Special Containment Procedures of the Keter class entity. SCP-055
That’s so interesting that the lore is created by a community, but even moreso that someone can actually author a work based on their contribution! Pretty interesting to see how far apart the first and last entries of the story were published. This is a rabbit hole I think I am ok skipping for now lol