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zoidoid
by chase griffin
cover by Christina Quay
zoidoid praise
“This is wild stuff!”
-Erik Davis, author of High Weirdness
“Chase Griffin is hallucinatory… He’s inventive. Thoughtful. Funny and ultimately optimistic about human and post-human survival in concert with our thinking utensils, particularly when they dose the tap water… or are we their utensils and does it matter? …He’s a worthy partner in discourse. Zoidoid is a small novel that’s looking for trouble. I’m a veteran of many psychic wars, but I’m not sure the damage I’ve suffered from this highly entertaining romp can ever be overcome. I may not be able to take anything seriously ever again. Avoid this book if you want to fit in.”
-RU Sirius, co-founder of Mondo2000
“Chase Griffin has a strong and unique imagination!”
-Jeff Noon, author of Vurt
“Zoidoid shows its readers that there is more to our world than what standard language tells us on the surface level. This book teaches us to look for the world beyond the breakdown of our language. This world does exist, as long as you are open to finding it.”
-Becky Curl, author of Train Boyfriends
“A mix of Joyce, Philip K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut? Yes, but not quite so: Chase Griffin's Zoidoid is a unique and compelling novella with a particular style. Peter lost his parents, but he's still a Zoidoid, oh yes, he has a peculiar way of expressing himself and he will never be just like all the others... Chase Griffin takes the reader along a funny, engaging and heart-warming adventure set in a dystopian future. You cannot put this inventive book down until you finish it!”
-João Reis, author of An Atavic Fear of Hailstorms
“Pure pataphysical play. A grand, goopy, ungodly, consciousness-crashing cacophony of late-stage language modeling. Contraindicated for all but the most reckless readers who prefer more than a few extra dollops of madlibs with their authors’ manic methods (ill-logics, post-nonsequitors, and neo-neologisms up their primordial wazoos). Just watch out for the violent green, gooey-coagulate climax: let it wash over you. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.”
—Marco V Morelli, founder of Metapsychosis
“Beckettian? Borgesian? Lovecraftian? PKDickian? Kafkaesque? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And more so than anything else, Zoidoid is Griffinian. Griffin! That mononymous soul! Or will he be remembered as Chase? I hope he’s remembered as Chase. That has a good ring to it. And only the mind of Chase could do something like this. Only Chase could zip us in such a way through our haecceity-jungle, this thick and tangible realm of vibe, mood, and memory into the core of the Air Loom, INTO! the dark heart of humanity!”
-Chris Thomas, beloved Tampa sportswriter and secret weird fiction aficionado and mentor of Chase
“Chase Griffin’s alchemical style continues with Zoidoid. At once a fanciful record of an unfathomable mind and experiment in merriment, the book is unabashed with its lingual adventurousness. When life gives you strange frequencies it’s time to whistle your own tune. Griffin is a psychedelic jester, and, as is common to that type, also the smartest guy in the room.”
-Rebecca Gransden, creative director of Xray Lit Mag
Roy Christopher link
zoidoid features 13 original sketches by chase griffin
other chase books
what’s on the menu?
a sequel to naked lunch
chase discusses menu and Burroughs and other cool shit with RU Sirius here
photo by Bart Nagel
razorcake reviews menu here
how to play a necromancer’s theremin
co-authored by Christina Quay
Illustration by Rob Kaniuk
in which high times reviews theremin
in which Richard Glenn Schmidt reviews theremin
interviews from the plasmate
Jeff Noon interview
Pat Irwin interview
Erik Davis interview
Roy Christopher interview
Josh Bohnsack interview
Kelvin Matheus Rosa interview
Rick Harsch interview
Marco V Morelli interview
RU Sirius interview
Dominic Loise
Mallory Smart interview
Christina Quay interview
Richard Polt interview
Douglas Rushkoff interview
portrait by Gavin L O’Keefe