Michael Smith's first short story, "The Man Who Drew Cats", is included here along with some unpublished stories. His genre is that of the slightly surreal, such as the tale of the actual finding of God, who works in an electrical store on Kentish Town Road and he's not getting many customers?[...]
Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls -- we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own![...]
Michael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield.[...]
For young Mark, the world has turned as bleak and gray as the Brighton winter. Separated from his real father and home in London, he's come to live with his mother and her new husband in an old house near the sea. He spends his days alone, trying to master the skateboard, while other boys his age ar[...]
They were raised for one chilling purpose....
A loner, an ex-cop, Jack Randall is the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All he's held dear has long been destroyed. For the last five years, he's been hiding out on a Spares Farm, guarding those who've been prisoners from birth. Now he's on the[...]
Only a handful of authors write with such startling originality that the uniqueness of their vision has become synonymous with their name. In Spares and One of Us, Michael Marshall Smith has earned that distinction. In this unsettling, suspenseful, and wildly imaginative novel he's written a tale th[...]