There Is No Antimemetics Division is a science fiction novel following the end of the world through the lens of a clandestine organisation. However There Is No Antimemetics Division manages to stand out through its use of a non-chronological progression, unreliable narrators as well as a nonlinear plot. All this culminates into a text which brilliantly illustrates the pain between commitment and promises however ultimately gets bogged down by its rushed antagonist and reliance on its source material.

For starters, its source material implies the existence of a secret organisation, simply known as the “Foundation” which contains and studies anything that acts “outside of the laws of nature” in order to maintain a sense of normalcy within the world. There Is No Antimemetics Division relies on the previous knowledge of this world which never gets explained itself. In this case, a “memetic” idea is something which exists to spread information through its very existence. Such as a rumour, it compels you to tell someone else. On the contrary, an “antimemetic” idea is something which can redact information or is designed to not be shared. Such as a password or secret. Because how can you fight a war if you can never even remember you’re at war in the first place?

The text is segmented into multiple parts however begins with the chief of the antimemetics division. Marion Wheeler sits outside an office, the air is sterile and the walls bleak. As soon as she walks in, a pistol is aimed at her forehead. On the other side of the pistol is her supervisor and his assistant as he denies her entire department. The titular “There is no antimemetics division.”

Marion introduces the in-universe version of, what she describes as, “remembering medicine,” “mnestics.” She insists that he was on two a day, both to remember her division. The only way that anyone could even forget to take the medicine is if someone or something was actively making you forget. She takes the pistol and shoots the supervisor’s assistant twice. “For what supervisor has an assistant?” She reasons.

The next chapter shows Marion visiting a geriatric man at the edge of a lake. He has dementia. Marion reminds him of a pact he made with the foundation. Marion injects a strong “mnestic” into his vein. It will kill him, but it will make him remember everything first. The man enlightens Marion about the first antimemetics division; his division. They created a “forgetting bomb.” He recalls an entity so fearful that they blew themselves up just to forget about it. He continues as a single black spider crawls out of his pupils. Marion injects herself with an “amnestic” (a medicine that makes you forget). Just like the old man, she forgets the entity.

Back at the foundation, Marion reads about the entity which the old man was referring to. It is sparse, the only information is about how it is housed in a single room underneath her entire division. With no other option, she enters the room. It is filled with notes all in her handwriting. She recognises none of them. They say the entity has chased her to this exact point several times before because as soon as you know about it, it kills you. Marion scoffs and leaves as a black spider follows behind her.

Suddenly, the entire facility is crumbling as Marion narrowly avoids mountains of cadavers. She injects “mnestics” into her veins. She remembers everything, most importantly the bomb cached underneath the site. She rushes there as a wave of antimemetic spiders begin to envelope the world around her. She manages to detonate the bomb as the world goes silent.