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Michael Marshall Smith

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Michael Marshall (Smith) is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His first novel, ONLY FORWARD, won the August Derleth and Philip K. Dick awards. SPARES and ONE OF US were optioned for film by DreamWorks and Warner Brothers, and the Straw Men trilogy - THE STRAW MEN, THE LONELY DEAD and BLOOD OF ANGELS - were international bestsellers. His most recent novels are THE INTRUDERS, BAD THINGS and KILLER MOVE.

He is a four-time winner of the BFS Award for short fiction, and his stories are collected in two volumes - WHAT YOU MAKE IT and MORE TOMORROW AND OTHER STORIES (which won the International Horror Guild Award).

He lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife and son.


Welcome to the relaunch of the site. Everything’s been jazzed up and moved around, hopefully to make it all more accessible. Yes, we did say “jazzed up”. We know no-one uses that expression any more. What of it? We may say “spiffing” later too if we feel like it.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 10,812 ratings · 1,212 reviews · 24 distinct works
Only Forward
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 1,036 ratings — published 1994 — 18 editions
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Spares
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 844 ratings — published 1997 — 21 editions
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One of Us
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 1998 — 14 editions
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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Bad Things
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 367 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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The Servants
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions
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Michael Smith Michael Smith said: "Rereading this book after thirty years. The first time it kind of changed my life - and was probably a big factor in my reading philosophy at university. The ideas and tone are standing up extremely well. "
 

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A stunning slice of the very darkest American gothic. Superb voice, characters and balance.
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Very good. I can't *quite* give it five stars, because it lost me for a while about three quarters of the way through, in a section whose structural purpose I understand but which still felt a bit of a trial - but it's the best in a long time.

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Just as entertaining on what must be the third or fourth reading. Holy cow does this guy care about his food.
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Ronson manages once again to pull off his trademark trick of being a little superficial and quite annoying while at the same time genuinely entertaining and thought-provoking.
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“How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all?

Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.

Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.”
Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward

“Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.”
Michael Marshall Smith

“It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you merely reinfect the wound, and every moment you spend with them is like a speck of glass working itself deeper into your flesh.”
Michael Marshall Smith, What You Make It: A Book Of Short Stories Michael Marshall Smith.

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Mark Jardine Thank you for accepting my friendship request.
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message 2: by Sara

Sara thank you Michael for accepting my friendship invitation. Sara


message 1: by Rick

Rick Hautala I've been reading mostly non-fiction lately ... and a handful of old (60s) science fiction ... Best book, though, was THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON by Susan Jacoby ... Amazing book. Gave me lots to think about even if I didn't always agree with her ...


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