Memetic

By James Tynion IV and Eryk Donovan

A meme is an idea that starts with an individual, and then spreads throughout multiple persons and potentially entire societies. Richard Dawkins suggests a meme's success comes from its effectiveness to the host. But history shows that destructive memes can spread just as rapidly through society. MEMETIC shows the progression of a weaponized meme that leads to the utter annihilation of the human race within 72 hours. The root of this apocalypse is a single image on the internet, a "meme" in the popular sense. A meme that changes everything.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOM Studios
• Release date: Oct 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781613984147

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Reviews for Memetic

[terence_johnson-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

this book was really creepy and interesting. I'm not necessarily a fan of the ending tho, but that's prob my adverse feelings about all is lost style works

[villemezbrown · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Found myself stuck waiting outside a thrift store changing room without a book in hand so I downloaded this for free from Amazon Prime Reading because I have long been intrigued by its cover. I swiped through the first third pretty quickly. Aside from being a rehash of Stephen King's Cell nothing special seemed to be happening, so it took me a couple days to get back to it.As I continued reading it reminded me of The Girl with All the Gifts and the later volumes of I Am a Hero with all of its bleakity-bleak bleakness. Then I realized I spent more time thinking about other books rather than this one even as I read it, and well, that ain't good.As I log this, I find that there are actually two sequel volumes: Cognetic and Eugenic. The completist in me has the urge to check them out, but I think I'll resist for once, especially since Tynion has been a hit-or-miss author for me. (Update: Oh, it seems they are thematic sequels, not directly continuing Memetic but offering up their own apocalyptic plot and new characters. That makes them even less interesting.)