The Next Fix

Cover art by Justin Stewart.

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 off-world 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.

Contents:

• Absolution, Insured
• Delve
• The Losting Corridor
• No World For Warriors
• Another Man’s Run
• The Last Frequency
• Mercury’s Magnitude
• A Place of Snow Angels
• Akropolis
• My Caroline
• Killing Jars
• Old Tricks
• The End of Flesh