Sam Hughes (born 1983), known online as qntm (pronounced "quantum"), is a British programmer and science fiction 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 wherein the word changes with every guess, while still remaining true to previous hints. 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.
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Hughes' novels are all self-published.