false<![CDATA[What You Make It]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171963787m/128646.jpg1286465There are those SF readers who resent the authors and publishers who attempt to downplay the genre aspects of their books to grant them more mainstream credibility. This resentment is fair enough, in that no one need be ashamed of creating a top-notch SF novel. But these readers will be doing themselves a great disservice if they do not pick up Michael Marshall Smith's superb collection of short stories <I>What You Make It</I> merely because the jacket has been designed to suggest mainstream fiction without the slightest SF association.<p>Smith has always been one of the most quirkily inventive and surprising of writers, with novels such as <I>Only Forward</I> and the remarkable <I>Spares</I> demonstrating an imaginative grasp all too rarely encountered these days. But his greatest achievement is his totally individual use of language and dialogue, and this highly diverse collection has 17 brilliant microcosms of his style. From terror in cyberspace to bizarre fusions of man and machine, through twisted manifestations of the artistic impulse to highly disturbing future sex, Smith has the measure of it all. And his gift for the bizarre image remains as acute as ever:<blockquote>About a week afterwards, I noticed that my back was looking a little hairy. I figured, what the hey, maybe some hormonal thing. Then it started getting harder to hold things. My thumb seemed to be going a little weird, not as opposable as it used to be. There were a couple of days when it looked like there was some kind of tail deal developing.</blockquote> --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>1239001999What You Make Ittotal:91|5:1|4:2|3:1|2:0|1:0|91374116740falsefalseThu Feb 07 09:18:57 -0800 2008Thu Feb 28 19:39:36 -0800 2008
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