“Sometimes doing nothing is the most violent thing to do.”

Yet again spun around and through knots of logic and nonlinear thought experiments about violence (and the perception of violence), and I couldn’t put it down. Maybe one day I’ll fully grasp and understand Žižek, but until then, I’m along for the ride.

I try to approach any fiction I’m reading with a complete “head empty” mindset to just fully get immersed in the world, and letting qntm take the wheel without me over anylizing was the right choice. This is a very heady science fiction horror novel, but I absolutely LOVED it. I feel more abstract novels of this type tend to get bogged down in details but the pacing of this was perfect for me.

I wasn’t aware that there is a new completely re-edited front to back version that came out a month ago, so I read the original SCP-heavy one. Having just a cursory knowledge of the SCP Foundation from being on the internet I didn’t feel lost or overly confused (outside the normal amount I feel people reading this will have). I’m very interested in seeing if the new version makes following along at points a bit easier. The entity naming of “SCP-buncha numbers” left me scratching my head here or there on if I was remembering the right ones.

But I absolutely am revisiting this universe through the new version in a year or two and if you’re a fan of SCP or Control (the author actually wrote a short-story teaming the main character with Jesse from the game) then this is a can’t miss.