qntm

Real name: Sam Hughes

1983–

qntm is the online name and byline of Sam Hughes, a British programmer and science fiction writer. He began publishing serial fiction on the web in the early 2000s, self-publishing novels including Fine Structure and Ra, and was an early contributor to the collaborative SCP Foundation horror project. He is also known for small, mischievous web games such as Hatetris and Absurdle. There Is No Antimemetics Division began as a web serial on the SCP Foundation wiki in 2015, was self-published as a novel in 2020 and was then rewritten for a revised edition from Del Rey in 2025. That version was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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