Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #564691 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

Customer Reviews

Wallace is the new AWESOME!!
Matt Wallace rocks the bells! In this collection of stories and one novella he shows the brilliance that made us all fans of his writing through the Variant Frequencies podcast. The Failed Cities Monologues, his stories, all of it is awesome! And you won't be disappointed here one bit: he keeps the action coming hard and fast in these stories. You'll hold this book so tight your knuckles will turn white before you even get through the first half, and you still won't put it down until you're done!

Expectations surpassed...buy often
I had high expectations for "The Next Fix" and Matt Wallace has surpassed them all. The book is a must have for all horror junkies. I only wish I was a better writer so I could express how sick and wonderful this book is. Thanks Matt...the book was worth the wait.

I was there when ...
There are historic times in your life that you don't know are historical when they happen. It's only years later, when you look back or see some "10 Year Anniversary of X" on TV that you realize, yeah, that was kind of a big deal, and I was there when.

That's the feeling I get when I read THE NEXT FIX. I get that feeling that this book will be some obscure collectible, and that the author will be accepted as one of the best writers of a generation. Not that such a thing guarantees fame and fortune, or even a life that's worth a squirt of pig pee. I mean, look at Jack Kerouac, another "great voice" who winds up croaking from a liver trashed by endless alcohol abuse. But this review isn't about Kerouac, or his liver, or pig urine -- it's about Matt Wallace: young, inventive, hard boiled and talented.

The stories in THE NEXT FIX reveal a natural writing gift that hasn't even begun to fully awaken. In a few sentences, if not a few words, he creates a character that could be the guy on the bar stool next to you, and a situation that has you trying hard to soak up every word, to not skip ahead because you are so damn eager to learn more about the faraway yet "I did this same damn thing just yesterday" place he created. He makes the future real, not with physics, but with a vibe that screams "my back is killing me from a twelve stim-infused hours while jammed into the crappy ergonomics on known as the spaceship's captain's chair, and how the hell am I going to make alimony payments to my wife back on Earth this month?

I'm a writer, and when I read Wallace's short stories, his natural ability seems effortless. And if it's not effortless, if he's not just crapping this stuff out of a Rain Man for Literature brain as easily I pass a bran muffin, then his skill level hints at something that makes me want tap out halfway through the first round, because I just can't take it anymore.

Matt Wallace is flat-out good. If he doesn't keel over from an early heart attack or get shot in the back by a jealous husband (either of which is rather likely), he may be quite well-known before too long. And when that happens, I'll dig out my copy of THE NEXT FIX and think, I was there when ...