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It's a book, but I think you'd love There is No Anti-Memetic Division - a short novel available on Kindle. High recommend, and assuming you're familiar with SCP, you'll love it (the author is a pretty prolific writer for the wiki).
It's the best SCP-derivative media I've encountered.
Just finished a book called <em>There Is No Antimemetics Division</em> which comes pretty close to what you're looking for. It's a pretty quick read, and one of the most engaging things I've come across in some time.
Anyone have stories similar to There is no Antimemetics Division or CORDYCEPS, where the viewpoint characters have to deal with memetic (and/or antimemetic) hazards?
Other examples of what I'm looking for:
Nowhere Land: pseudo-SCP story where the main character is stuck in a malfunctioning jumpchain anomaly. >!He eventually finds out that he wiped most of his own memory of working for his group with amnestics.!< Unfortunately dead, but I really enjoyed what was there.
Ar'Kendrythist (sorta): Usually doesn't focus on this sort of thing, but very occasionally does. Chapter 68 in particular was exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for.
Pact (sorta): has traces of this, especially the parts involving the abstract demon Ur. >!Nobody knows much about it, or how much damage it's done, since it retroactively erases the history of anything it encounters.!<
Worm (kinda sorta): has very minor traces of this, primarily involving the character Imp.
There are no official SCP books. The license that SCP exists under allows anyone to make money off this content (see Licensing Guide) so check Amazon search for other books either inspired by SCPs or that are reprints of the original fiction from http://scpwiki.com.
One high quality example of the latter is the There Is No Antimemetics Division book available in paperback and ebook edition via Amazon. The author of the stories in that book originally published them on the aforementioned wiki, and now is selling them as a book.
Aside from searching Amazon for "SCP", I'm not sure if there's is another good way to find more books.
I liked this a lot more than I expected. If you want to read a book with the stories that inspired Control, check out this: https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Antimemetics-Division-qntm-ebook/dp/B08FHHQRM2 pretty good so far
It's also available as a full book. Well worth it, IMO.
If you like SCP, you would like "There is no Anti-memetics Division" https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Antimemetics-Division-qntm-ebook/dp/B08FHHQRM2
I think qntm is a SCP contributor too.
I recommend looking into There is No Antimemetics Division. It’s an SCP related property about memory-eating entities loose on Earth.
Well with at least one of them you actually can
A relatively short explanation is that in the early days scp was just a glorified creepypasta website, but it distinguished itself for it's standard clinical format (even early on tales were a thing, but they were still connected to the articles), recurring elements and most importantly good moderation and quality control (but it was still mostly murder monsters or evil/weird objects, think 682, 035, 096, 914, 106, etc with some notable exceptions like 610)
Now despite all that what ended up happening after a bit is that a lot of the stories became "doctor whacky-autor-self-insert gets up to shenanigans with the murder monster" (this is how all the recurring doctor characters like Bright, Clef and Gears were born, just that nowadays they're actual characters and not mary sues).
people quickly realised that this sucked, so the wiki was purged a bit, and there was a new collective focus on having decent writing and building stories around the skips; eventually the stories became the main focus and that's where we are today
I mean modern scp is still fucking insane, you have cybernetic autistic catgirls, the trump one where Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an actual fucking wizard, and not one, but two amogus skips
Have you read There is no Antimemetics Division
Specifically, we’re talking about this book. More generally, the internet culture it arose out of. https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Antimemetics-Division-qntm-ebook/dp/B08FHHQRM2
I can recommend this book
It’s got a proper control vibe based In the SCP universe. Really weird and interesting story
Mike Solana kills it, as usual, pointing out the oddly antimemetic properties of Covid discourse and other things as well:
>Covid-19 is highly communicable, or viral, which is I guess another way of saying it’s incredibly memetic — in a biological sense. Its existence is also something we endlessly talk about, which is to say “The Virus,” as a monster we should fear, is also a memetic idea in the usual sense (spreads rapidly, and sticks). But strangely, in almost every other dimension, the virus appears to be powerfully antimemetic. Try to think back. We have forgotten more about this thing than we will ever know. > >Where did Covid come from? How did the various nations of the world, including especially the nation responsible, react as the pandemic began? What did the World Health Organization recommend? How did the WHO’s relationship with China shape its approach to the virus? How did Americans think about the virus in February, 2020? People all around this country masked while jogging. We shut down beaches, we locked the elderly in homes together while they were sick. From travel restrictions to the efficacy of vaccines, every single major Covid position has diametrically switched across party lines, and almost every person responsible for Covid decisions, which have nearly all been disastrous, is still in power. Unless we’re all completely insane, none of this would be possible were we able to effectively remember. > >That we’re in some sense still in danger is a thing many of us seem to understand, but the details evade us. The threat is invisible.
He goes on to suggest that nuclear power and space exploration are other examples of antimemes -- no matter how much of a world-ending crisis global warming is supposed to be, for example, we are simply unable to think of building nuclear power plants, and if it's brought up people go "Oh yeah I guess that might help" and then immediately forget it again. Another example I'd throw out is the idea of expanding hospital capacity to handle Covid, or of building mental hospitals to deal with the mentally ill homeless that fill our streets. People, or at least people in authority, are simply unable to think about it.
(Yes, "antimeme" is a reference to There Is No Antimemetics Division. If you haven't read that, congratulations -- you're about to have a good time.)
Pretty much anything by qntm.
There is no Antimemetrics Division or Fine Structure for example.
There’s a whole wild sci fi book on this idea. https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Antimemetics-Division-qntm-ebook/dp/B08FHHQRM2 (not affiliated, I just am reading it right now)
The SCP foundation has a lot of good stories. “There is no antimnemetics division” by qntm is really good.
https://www.amazon.com/There-No-Antimemetics-Division-qntm-ebook/dp/B08FHHQRM2
Think X files on crack, with an entire division of the government set on keeping that stuff from going bump in the night. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/
Some suggested Tales, from my SCP Starter Guide
[[Fear Alone]]
[[New Job]]
[[Transcript of Dr. Clef's seminar, "Reality Benders and You: How to Survive When Existence Doesn't."]]
[[More Like Rainbow Crapitalism]]
[[What Passes for Normal in the Digital Age]]
[[Sometimes it's not funny]]
[[Taking Care of the Kids]]
[[SCP-4239]], which is a tale, and that's a good thing. Or listen to my "declassified" of it.
Actually just read any Gamers Against Weed Tale.
[[Slice of Life]]
[[When Day Breaks]]
There's also the [[There is no Antimemetics Division]] canon, which can actually be bought on Amazon.
All Amazon sales links: US UK DE FR ES IT NL JP BR CA MX AU IN
Fun note: Kindle Direct Publishing requires publishers to hold copyright over the content they publish. Therefore, the Kindle edition omits the second half of <em>SCP-055</em> (Addendum A onwards), which is not by me. <em>We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five</em> is very lightly edited to account for this. I don't think this significantly harms the story, though.
The Google Play and Gumroad editions do not have these changes.
And of course, you can still read the whole thing in its original form on the SCP wiki for free.
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