false 3318531 1 If there is a party at the end of the universe, Matt Wallace's The Next Fix will be the drug of choice. Two-time Parsec Award-winning author teams with Apex Publications for a new collection of 12 short stories and one novella. With characters as gritty as Sam Spade but as real as your next-door neighbor, The Next Fix cooks up a cocktail of futuristic trips that range from haunting to comedic to don't-turn-out-the-lights. From Wallace's introduction to The Next Fix: You're in my own little chimerical sphere now, but I'm no different than you. I don't shoot, snort, or roll, but I'm my own kind of fiend with my own kind of jones. You can simplify it, call it a fiction addiction. It's much more than that. Part of it's that whole "art is not a mirror, it's a hammer" thing. It's powerful. Wallace's quest for the next great high of the imagination takes the reader through the cannibalistic noir of "The End of Flesh," the haunting beauty of endless seekers in "The Losting Corridor," and on an action packed ride-along with offworld postal workers in "Another Man's Run." If you like a chaser of tech with your horror, humor with your darkness, and beauty with your grit, The Next Fix is your next high. Blurbs "Matt Wallace possesses a supercharged hard boiled voice that rumbles and rocks as he delivers stories that rip the reader across landscapes of personal apocalypse. The tales from his first collection, The Next Fix, range easily and effectively from the gritty to the surreal, the far reaches of space to individual hells, often in the space of a few pages. With a storytelling style born from podcasting, he knows how to grab and hold a reader's attention - that crackle and hiss you hear isn't interference, but energy and joy as his love of language and story stretches bandwidth to accommodate his vision." --Gerard Houarner, Road From Hell "Matt Wallace serves up two-fisted action -if your fists are half-cybernetic, the size of hamhocks, and covered in broken glass." --Scott Sigler, Infected and Ancestor "Visceral and raw-Matt Wallace takes hold of you and doesn't let go!" --R.D. Hall, Heroes writer, creator of American Wasteland About the Author A proponent of open media, Matt Wallace (www.matt-wallace.net) has won awards for his freely distributed podcast fiction and has sold several film scripts in the Australian and U.S. markets. He also serves as contributing co-editor for Murky Depths magazine 3356280 30 4 2008 The Next Fix total:11|5:0|4:0|3:0|2:0|1:0| 11 49 22 1 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 11 06:30:29 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 06:30:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 27 08:28:56 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 08:28:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 21 10:14:14 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 10:14:14 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jun 29 11:31:25 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 11:31:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 27 10:23:23 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 10:23:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 08 17:22:49 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 17:22:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 06 15:37:07 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 20:44:54 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Mar 04 21:50:36 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 21:50:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 16 14:07:41 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 14:07:41 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 24 09:57:24 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 09:57:24 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Feb 07 19:02:29 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 11:58:20 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 19:02:29 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Dec 11 20:37:05 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 20:37:09 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Aug 20 05:18:22 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 05:18:22 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Aug 09 02:24:07 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 02:24:07 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Jul 17 19:28:47 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 19:28:47 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jul 16 12:19:51 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 12:19:51 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jul 14 13:52:40 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 13:53:01 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jul 09 10:11:29 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 10:11:29 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jul 08 18:34:52 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 18:34:52 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jun 07 15:35:37 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 15:35:37 -0700 2008