Bøger af Michael Marshall Smith

"You wake up and the world is different. Not in the disaster movie sense, but much more painful and purposeful--almost sinister. Imagine waking up, as normal, but today the world is different: There aren't any people in it. How do you behave? What do you do? How do you change?"--

An anthology of dark science fiction and fantasy co-edited by Darren Speegle and Michael Bailey. Prisms are instruments, mirrors, metaphors, gateways humankind must pass through in order to achieve, to overcome, to realize, to become. Contained herein are nineteen transformative tales from some of speculative fiction's most brilliant minds. So open your eyes and let the light pass through . . .

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 are in school. He hates the unwanted stepfather who barged into Mark's life to rob him of joy. Worst of all, his once-vibrant mother has grown listless and weary, no longer interested in anything beyond her sitting room.But on a damp and chilly evening, an accident carries Mark into the basement flat of the old woman who lives at the bottom of his stepfather's house. She offers tea, cakes, and sympathy . . . and the key to a secret, bygone world. Mark becomes caught up in the frenetic bustle of the human machinery that once ran a home, and drawn ever deeper into a lost realm of spirits and memory. Here below the suffocating truths, beneath the pain and unhappiness, he finds an escape, and quite possibly a way to change everything.A richly evocative, poignantly beautiful modern-day ghost story, The Servants marks the triumphant return of Michael Marshall Smith?the first novel in a decade from the multiple award-winning author of Spares.

Michael Marshall Smith has written a tale that from page one hurtles us only forward in this unsettling, suspenseful, and wildly imaginative novel Call him Stark. If you have to. If you're lucky, you won't call him at all. Because if you do, it means you've got trouble. Big trouble. And the problem is that before Stark is done fixing something, a whole lot of other things usually get broken. Like laws and lives-and anyone who gets in the way. It's that attitude that's earned him his latest assignment: finding a missing VIP named Fell Alkland. The authorities believe Alkland has been kidnapped. Stark doesn't. He hasn't stayed alive this long without learning the basics of survival in a world hurtling straight to hell: Things are always more complicated than they seem. And when a job seems too easy, that's when something really ugly is about to happen. For Fell Alkland is about to become Stark's worst nightmare, a nightmare where anything can happen at any time-where friends can become enemies in a heartbeat and your most secret fear a soul-screaming reality. And the worst of it is that for this nightmare you don't even have to be asleep."Shocking, moving, and surreal . . . It offers us a journey from which we return both shaken and exhilarated. . . . Extraordinary."-Clive Barker

Byen er så stor, at den dækker landet fra kyst til kyst. Den udgøres af Kvarterer, hvor folk bor efter præferencer. I Centeret bor folk, som kun tænker på effektivitet, i Colour skifter gaderne farver og mønstre alt efter, hvem der færdes der, i Drømmeland er der kun mennesker, når de sover, mens der i Sound kun bor de personer, der ikke kan tåle støj. Da en af Centerets chefer forsvinder, hyres fribytteren Stark til at eftersøge hans færden. Eftersøgningen udvikler sig til en dramatisk jagt i en verden, hvor fortid og fremtid, virkelighed og drømme blandes sammen. "Fremad, kun fremad" er en dragende spændingsroman, der i et science fiction-univers konstant vender logikken på hovedet og får læseren til at sidde på kanten af stolen fra begyndelse til slutning. Michael Marshall Smith (f. 1965) er en amerikansk fantasy- og science fictionforfatter. Han er uddannet i filosofi og statskundskab ved King’s College-universitetet i Cambridge i England. Under pseudonymet Michael Rutger, begyndte han at skrive og performe comedy-materiale til BBC’s radio 4 til serien "And Now in Colour" som senere er blevet beskrevet som et kulthit. Under eget navn udgav Smith sin første novelle i 1991, som han vandt British Fantasy Award for. Tre år senere udkom hans første roman "Only Forward" - "Fremad, kun fremad" på dansk - som høstede stor anerkendelse blandt anmelderne og vandt flere priser. Flere af Smiths manuskripter er solgt til produktionsselskabet DreamWorks, der er ejet af den amerikanske succesinstruktør Steven Spielberg.

The first ever collection of Michael Marshall Smith's award-winning short stories.The first piece of fiction Smith ever wrote - a short story called The Man Who Drew Cats - won the World Fantasy award. It's included here along with many others, some unpublished, which show the incredible versatility of one of the most exciting writers working in Britain today. The collection is stuffed with surreal, disturbing gems including:'When God Lived in Kentish Town' Someone comes up to you when you're quietly eating your stir-fried rice in a great Chinese take away, and tells you: 'I've found God'. You try to ignore them, right? But what if they have, and what if He works in a drab old electrical store on Kentish Town Road and he's not getting many customers?'Diet Hell' Some people will do anything to fit into their old jeans.'Save As...' What if you could back up your life? Save it up to a certain point and return to it when things went horribly wrong?'Everybody Goes' An idyllic childhood day from a long, hot summer. The kind you want to last for ever. All good things must come to an end, mustn't they?

Michael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield.

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...Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye - but some people are doing all the taking.Spares - the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference...if he can run fast enough.Spares - a breathless race through strange, disturbing territories in a world all too close to our own.Spares - it's fiction. But only just...

A mesmerising SF thriller from a master of the genre. Hap Thompson is a REMtemp, working the night hours, having people's anxiety dreams for them. For the first time in his life, Hap's making big money - and that should have been enough...Hap Thompson has finally found something he can do better than anyone else. And it's legal. Almost. Hap's a REMtemp, working the night hours, having people's anxiety dreams for them. For the first time in his life, Hap's making big money - and that should have been enough.But then Hap is made an offer he just can't refuse: proxying memories instead of dreams. This is not almost illegal - this is illegal in bold with flashing lights. The last thing the cops want are criminals who can pass lie detector tests and Hap knows it, but he's relying on the promise that he won't have to carry anything that relates to a criminal offence. Big mistake. Before he knows what's happening, Hap is locked in a vicious nightmare that threatens to tear his mind and his life apart...And, as in all Michael Marshall Smith novels, that is just the start.