Science Fiction? Lad Lit?
It'll All Boil Down to Marketing

Professor Barnhardt's Journal interviews Ned Vizzini, whose new novel, Be More Chill, revolves around the plot device of the squip, :an ingestible quantum computer that gives you real time social advice."

Basically, it's a pill that makes you cool. You eat it; its coating dissolves in your system and it sidles up to your neurons to communicate directly with your brain, telling you what to wear, how to act, whom to be friends with and whom to ignore.

I kinda liked this concept when it involved putting software cartridges into the back of your head in George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails, one of my favorite science fiction novels of the 1980s. But it'll be interesting to see what 21st-century twists Vizzini has added in.