(Drivebycuriosity) - Memories are tricky and often elusive. I rarely remember what I have dreamt. Usually the stories I had experienced during my REM phases disappear in the moment I awake.
The short novel "There is no Antimemetics Division" plays with similar phenomena - here called antimemetics ( amazon). An unidentified force - ore are there more? - attacks humans by erasing their memory swiftly and destroying them this way. There are a lot anomalous objects/phenomenons which are tacked with the acronym SCP and a number. "Information about SCP-55`s physical appearance leaks out of human mind soon after such an observation". When for instance people observe an object, called SCP-055, they soon forget about it, written notices became unreadable, photo and film material can not be identified.
The early parts of the book read like Phillip K. Dick came back from the afterworld and delivered his masterpiece. Phillip couldn´t have done this better. Later the book turns into something Franz Kafka could have written followed by surreal parts and horror.
The novel is fun to read, very eclectic, stuffed with funny original ideas and very weird. There is a website called "SCP Foundation" ( scp-wiki.wikidot). The site is a wiki and invites apparently everybody to publish texts there. The "SCP Foundation" website contains a large number of pages and includes many tales, some are related to this novel. According to Wikipedia "the SCP Foundation is a fictional organization documented by the web-based collaborative-fiction project of the same name. The real-world website is community-based and includes elements of many genres such as horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy" (wikipedia ).
"There is no Antimemetics Division" is a very interesting and exciting project. In the moment of writing the Kindle version cost just $2.99.
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