Be More Chill is a science fiction novel published in 2004 by American author Ned Vizzini. It features a fictional pill named the "squip". This story is set around 2010.

Be More Chill is written in the first person, from the perspective of high school student Jeremy Heere. Jeremy is a teenage loser, who can't get with any girls and is frequently tormented by bullies, usually Rich, a short-statured, but well-built popular teen. After hearing from Rich about the "squip"--a quantum computer in pill form that can communicate directly with your brain once ingested—Jeremy purchases the pill at the back of a Payless Shoes store, and transforms from a klutzy loser to a member of the social elite.

• Jeremy: The protagonist. In the beginning of the book, Jeremy is bullied by the "cooler" kids at school, but after purchasing a squip he becomes one of the most popular teenagers in school and has the attention of the most attractive girls. Jeremy acts for the most part like a normal teenager, and is inherently a nice guy.

• Rich Rich used to be a loser like Jeremy, but after getting a squip, he became cool.

• Christine: Jeremy's love interest. Unlike most of the girls in the book, Christine has a more intellectual personality and favors confidence and kindness over looks and social status. Christine is the only girl that Jeremy has a crush on, although he hooks up with two others.

• The Squip: A supercomputer that resides in Jeremy's mind. It speaks to him telepathically with Keanu Reeves' voice, and gives him real-time social advice. It can be "very soothing" when it wants to, and is very persuasive when it is telling Jeremy to do something he doesn't want to do.

• Chloe: Although Christine is Jeremy's love interest, Chloe is the main girl that Jeremy hooks up with. After he gets the squip and acts differently around her, Chloe becomes attracted to Jeremy. She is best friends with Katrina and Stephanie, and she smokes crack with her mom.

• Michael: Michael is Jeremy's longtime best friend. He tells Jeremy a false name for the squip, knowing that Jeremy would want one. At the party, Michael gets a girlfriend named Nicole. He knows what the squip is all along without telling Jeremy because of his brother, who is paranoid and delusional, thanks to a defective squip that helped him ace his SAT's.

In a novel that could be described as a kinder, gentler version of M.T. Anderson's Feed, author Ned Vizzini draws on recollections of his years at Stuyvesant High School to create a witty commentary on the annoying realities of teen social life. (ages 14 up) -- Patty Campbell in Amazon.com Review

"A fresh, spontaneous, and original voice . . . It's fun, wacky, outrageous. I just couldn't stop reading." -- Judy Blume

"Quirky, funny and dead-on . . . imagine Holden Caulfield with Internet access." -- New York Post

"Vizzini anatomizes high school lust and social scheming without any condescending reassurance." -- The New York Times Book Review ^[1]

• Ned Vizzini's Website