Neverday

For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and "one of the most original novelists working today" by horror legend Edward Lee. In his 57th book, Neverday, Mellick has created a dystopian horror tribute to time loop stories in the tradition of Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow and Happy Death Day. Karl Lybeck has been repeating the same day over and over again, in a constant loop, for what feels like a thousand years. He's been stuck in this endless cycle for so long that he doesn't remember what his life was like before time stopped moving forward. He doesn't remember his parents' faces or what he used to do for a living. The only reason he remembers his own name is because it's printed on his Oregon State driver's license. When a woman named January enters his life, Karl learns that he isn't the only one trapped in the time loop. In fact, the majority of the population has been repeating the same day just as he has been for hundreds of years. While Karl was hiding isolated in his suburban home, a whole new world was being built just outside his door. Society has adapted to repeating. Strange laws have been implemented. A new memory-based currency has been put into place. But there's something not quite right about the new repeating government. Karl doesn't understand why those in charge have no interest in trying to fix their situation. He doesn't doesn't understand why going into the neverday--that time period that only exists if you stay awake all night to avoid repetition--is considered the worst possible crime that anyone can commit. With the help of others who share in his suspicions, Karl plans to find out exactly what is being hidden from them, even if it destroys the very fabric of their society forever.

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Praise for Carlton Mellick III "Easily the craziest, weirdest, strangest, funniest, most obscene writer in America." -- GOTHIC MAGAZINE "Carlton is an acquired taste, but he hooks you like a drug." --HUNTER SHEA, author of Forest of Shadows "The most original novelist working today? The most outrageous?The most unpredictable? These aren't easy superlatives to make;however, Carlton Mellick may well be all of those things, behind a canonof books that all irreverently depart from the form and conceptsof traditional novels, and adventure the reader into a howling,dark fantasy land of the most bizarre, over-the-top, andmind-warping inventiveness." --EDWARD LEE, author of Header "Carlton Mellick III is a genius with an insanely beautiful imagination." --JOE AUGUSTYN, writer of Night of the Demons "Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles... and the kinkiest fans!" --CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of The Stupidest Angel "If you haven't read Mellick you're not nearly perverse enough for the twenty first century." --JACK KETCHUM, author of The Woman and The Girl Next Door "Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction'smost talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, sciencefictional tale." --CORY DOCTOROW, author of Little Brother "Mellick's career is impressive because, despite the fact that he puts outa few books a year, he has managed to bring something new to thetable every time... Every Mellick novel is packed with more wildlyoriginal concepts than you could find in the current top ten New York Times bestsellers put together." --VERBICIDE "Mellick's guerrilla incursions combine total geek boy fandom and love with genuine, unbridled outsider madness. As such, it borders on genius, in theway only true outsider art can." --FANGORIA "Bizarre, twisted, and emotionally raw--Carlton Mellick's fiction is the literary equivalent of putting your brain in a blender." --BRIAN KEENE, author of The Rising and Dead Sea "I'm a huuuuge Bizarro fan. This new strain of cheerfully transgressive weird fiction is to me the most vibrant, exciting, genre-mangling scene in all of strange literature today. And no one holds dominionover this blossoming underground phenomenon like the godfather ofBizarro, Carlton Mellick III. With the most impressive sideburns inimaginative lit since Isaac Asimov, and a brain that squirts outmore shamelessly playful originality in any given chapter than mostartists will accomplish in their entire lives, he's the poster boy. TheElvis. As well he should be." --JOHN SKIPP, co-author of The Bridge "It's not unusual to blow through a Mellick book in onesitting. They're fast-paced with an endless number of surprises, making it tough not to keep turning pages. When the end comes, I'm left withthat done-too-soon feeling that I always love experiencing." --RAZORCAKE "A wormhole of disturbing surrealism and absurd satire." --VICE MAGAZINE "Carlton Mellick III exemplifies the intelligence and wit that lurks between its lurid covers. In a genre where crude titles are an artin themselves, Mellick is a true artist." --THE GUARDIAN "His fiction blends bizarre scenarios mixed with horror, action,and even more bizarre actions to create fiction that toes the linebetween the absurd and the dark places of the mind... Shocking yetentertaining"--THE EXAMINER "Iimagine Mellick as a Willy Wonka-type character, someone with personalaccess to another world, a world of his own creation, but due to itsmind-bending energy, he's lost control of it, and it continues to thriveeven without him there to pull the strings. And I like the idea ofthat." --BOOKIE MONSTER "The imp of the perverse." --3AM MAGAZINE "Just as Pop had Andy Warhol and Dada Tristan Tzara, the Bizarro movement has its very own P. T. Barnum-type practitioner. He'sthe mutton-chopped author of such books as Electric Jesus Corpse and The Menstruating Mall, the illustrator, editor, and instructor of all things Bizarro, and his name is Carlton Mellick III." --DETAILS MAGAZINE "Discussing Bizarro literature without mentioning Mellick islike discussing weird-ass muttonchopped authors without mentioningMellick."--CRACKED.COM

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