Michael Marshall Smith

Michael Marshall Smith (born May 3, 1965 in Knutsford , Cheshire ) is an English novelist and screenwriter.

As a small child he moved with his parents first to Illinois, then to Florida, at the age of 7 to South Africa, later to Australia, and finally to return to England. He studied philosophy and politics at Cambridge University . Before he hit the bestseller lists in England with The Second Creator , he won the Phillip K. Dick and August Derleth Awards for his innovative first novel Only Forward . As early as 1991 he received the British Fantasy Award for his short story The Man Who Drew Cats , in addition the Icarus as best newcomer. The August Derleth Award for Stark, the dream detective , followed in 1995, and again in 2010 for his short story What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night . He lives in London with his wife. He received the British Fantasy Award four more times: 1992 for The Dark Land , 1995 for Only Forward , 1996 for More Tomorrow and What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night , each for best short story.

Works

• 1994 Only Forward (Stark, the dream detective)
• 1996 Spares - The Sixth Clone (Cloned)
• 1998 One of Us - (REM)
• 2002 The Straw Men (The Second Creator)
• 2004 The Lonely Dead (UK) / The Upright Man (US) (Angel of Death)
• 2005 Blood of Angels
  • German: Blutsbruder , Knaur Taschenbuch-Verlag Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-426-63444-8
• 2007 The Intruders
  • German: Die Eindringlinge , Knaur Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-426-50117-7
• 2007 The Servants
• 2009 Bad Things

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Marshall Smith in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Marshall Smith in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Michael Marshall Smith in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Works by and about Michael Marshall Smith at Open Library
• Michael Marshall Smith in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Official website (English)