Sam Hughes (born 1983), known online as qntm (pronounced " quantum"), is a British programmer and

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

author. 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''. He has also written for the SCP Wiki, and his book ''There Is No Antimemetics Division'' (2021) is derived from that fictional universe. He contributed to SCP-055 alongside user CptBellman. In 2022, Hughes created Absurdle, a variant of

Wordle ''Wordle'' is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, and owned and published by The New York Times Company since 2022. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for ...

wherein the word changes with every guess, while still remaining true to previous hints. ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

'' 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 ''Tetris'' (russian: link=no, Тетрис) is a puzzle video game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. It has been published by several companies for multiple platforms, most prominently during a dispute over the appro ...

variant Hatetris.

Bibliography

Hughes' novels are all self-published. * * * * *

References

External links

Official website

qntm
at SCP Foundation
Sam Hughes
at the

Internet Speculative Fiction Database The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and horror fiction. The ISFDB ...

{{SCP Foundation British science fiction writers Living people SCP Foundation 1983 births