Club Zero-G

By Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff, author of eight books on media and culture, as well as the novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy, marks his graphic novel debut with Club ZeroG. Teaming with Canadian independent comic artist Steph Dumais, Rushkoff has delivered America's answer to Japan's anim a mindaltering journey into a universe where consensus reality is up for grabs.

The story follows Zeke, a gangly, unpopular, 19yearold college student--a townie who also happens to attend the elite college in his community--who has discovered a terrific new club where he is accepted and popular. There's only one catch: everyone at the club is dreaming. It only exists in the shared dream consciousness of its participants. If at all.

For there's the rub: Zeke's friends think he is simply going crazy. His girlfriend in the club won't even acknowledge his existence in real life.

As Zeke descends further into the Club ZeroG reality, he learns that this shared dream space is actually a psychic field created by four mutant children from the future--the last of their kind, conceived by human space travelers in zero gravity and exhibiting strange deformities and abilities. Living in a future where independent thinking is considered a threat to consensus, they are hunted by the authorities, and seek the help of teens from the 21st century who, they hope, can still alter the course of reality.

But Zeke eventually learns this is all a setup, and he is being used by the militaries of the present and the future as a portal into the psychic field of the ZeroG kids, so they can be destroyed. Unless, of course, he is just going mad.

The battle for Zeke's mind becomes an interdimensional battle for reality itself, in this daring, adult, American, anim adventure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972952934
• ISBN13: 9780972952934
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Disinformation Company
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

For growing young people

If you are a parent, buy this graphical novel for your kids. If you are a young growing up human -- buy this book, too. It is a good map for the journey in exploring the under-layer and inner-mechanics of "LIFE".

gene-war

"Douglas Rushkoff HIV=scans the gene-war of a chemical=anthropoid through Club Zero-G, the digital=chimpanzee's deconstruction declaration. Seize an abnormal living body-controller!" - Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric

LAIN???

What I can guess reading the book description is that this book is a "copy" of an anime series called Serial Experiments Lain, that ironically is inspired in some of rushkoff's stuff... well, lain is not a copy of rushkoff's books, it only uses some of him ideas to create a different story, but this graphic novel is almost a lain copy... but i think we can take it as a mutual homage :)

Words do not do justice...

I am not sure how writing a review for a graphic novel could ever do it justice? Your best bet is to buy this, read it once, then again to make sure you really just read/saw what you did...then, like me...write a glowing review and buy one as a Bar Mitzvah gift (as I just did...).