Extinction Journals

As of 2021 this early/insane JRJ novella appears in the collection ALL THE WRONG IDEAS!"Jeremy Robert Johnson's novella of the apocalypse is a supremely weird reading experience, sitting somewhere between Chuck Palahniuk and John Wyndham. Extinction Journals is a hybrid, a mutant child of 1950's paranoia and contemporary dystopia. Bleak, funny, apocalyptic and affecting, it stays with you long after you've finished it."--THE ZONE (UK)You can survive a nuclear blast.All you need is some luck, and maybe a customized business suit coated in cockroaches. It could work. At least that's what Dean believed before the bombs actually dropped and his suit led him to murder a Very Important Man at the foot of a blackened obelisk.Now D.C. is looking awfully empty. Life on Earth is pretty much coming to an end. All of which leaves Dean with a single question--"What now?" The answerto that question will take him on an uncanny voyage across a newly nuclear America where he must confront the problems associated with loneliness, radiation, love, and an ever-evolving cockroach suit with a mind of its own.Dean's bizarre adventures mark the last chronicle of human existence, the final entries in our species' own...EXTINCTION JOURNALS

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"Has more weird, fresh, mandible-imprinted ideas per page than you can poke a Twinkie at."--21C MAGAZINE"Equally profound and hilarious, [Extinction Journals] contains not only some of the most thoughtful examinations of humanity's need for companionship to come along in several years, but also some of the best descriptions of loneliness and thanatophobia, the pervasive human fear of death."-- THE PEDESTAL "Absurd, silly, yet ultimately important. There are overtones of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. There is a sense that Vonnegut could have written this. It mixes the sublime and the ridiculous superbly."-- I READ ODD BOOKS "Extinction Journals is like a Twilight Zone episode made without Standards and Practices telling Serling he couldn't feature any human/insect love scenes. Move over Chris Genoa- there's a new sexy genius in town."-- CHRIS GENOA, author of Foop! "DUCK AND COVER, BITCHES! Jeremy Robert Johnson answers the call to glory with his intimately insectoid mini-epic of apocalypse, Extinction Journals: a trip far weirder and more fucked up than it has any right to be. Just like these times."-- JOHN SKIPP, NY Times Bestselling author of Conscience, co-author/editor of The Scream, Mondo Zombie, and Book of the Dead "Johnson swirls just enough lucidity and knowing, zombie-Vonnegut hilarity into his bizarro fable of mutually assured delirium to make me question my own sanity. Until science finds a cure for whatever ails this boy, we can only hope to bask in the cool plutonium glow of his weaponized mind... and start collecting cockroaches."-- CODY GOODFELLOW, author of Radiant Dawnand Ravenous Dusk

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