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konmok | 2 months ago

I'm a big qntm fan. I highly recommend their "antimemetics" SCP stories and articles.

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jdpage|2 months ago

There's a new, professionally-published book version of "There Is No Antimemetics Division" out as well[1], if you want to support Sam's work that way. I have print copies of both the self-published V1 and the new V2. I'm very excited about the latter, though I haven't finished it yet.

[1]: https://qntm.org/antimemetics

Analemma_|2 months ago

One small word of caution if you read the older version first: for what I assume are copyright reasons around using SCP in a professionally-published book, the new published version has had to strip out all the SCP references and change the names of all the characters, but it is otherwise very close to the old one. There are a handful of new scenes and some other small differences, but many pages and chapters are word-for-word identical apart from the aforementioned name changes.

This could just be a me thing, but I found this incredibly distracting after being so used to the old version, and just couldn't manage to enjoy it. Fortunately I bought the old one as well.

patleeman|2 months ago

I loved this book. The audiobook is available on spotify and was a great listen.

solid_fuel|2 months ago

I really enjoyed one of their other stories - Ra https://qntm.org/ra

phildenhoff|2 months ago

I hope qntm has the chance to traditionally publish Ra and have it edited as well. I enjoyed the book a lot, but felt it needed a solid once over.

Really enjoyed the novel though! Planning to reread it in the spring.

LoganDark|2 months ago

I love Ra -- Fine Structure is also great!

gostsamo|2 months ago

Ra was a disappointment for me. If you end up rewriting your entire world at the end of the book, it is an intellectual failing to tackle the main issues straight on. Combine it with an mc who suddenly becomes just an idiot walked around and what you end up with is some SV eschatonism. Lots of preaching and ready conclusions, but little to return to later.