Sam Hughes | |
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Born | 1983 (age 40–41) |
Pen name | qntm |
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Nationality | British |
Genre | Science fiction |
Notable works | There Is No Antimemetics Division (2021) |
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Sam Hughes (born 1983[1]), known online as qntm (pronounced "quantum"),[2] is a British programmer and science fiction author.[3] On his personal website, Hughes posts short stories such as "Lena" (2022), about the first digital snapshot of a human brain, and serial novels such as Ra and Fine Structure.[1][4][5] He has also written for the SCP Wiki, and his book There Is No Antimemetics Division (2021) is derived from that fictional universe.[6][7] He contributed to SCP-055 alongside user CptBellman.[8]
In 2022, Hughes created Absurdle, a variant of Wordle wherein the word changes with every guess, while still remaining true to previous hints.[3][9][10] The Guardian described it as "the machiavellian version of Wordle", and Hughes described it as an "experiment to find the most difficult [...] variant of Wordle", comparing it to one of his previous projects, the Tetris variant Hatetris.[11]