Michael Marshall Smith (Born on May 3rd, 1965) is a British novelist . Born with Knutsford, in the Cheshire, he moved very early with his family initially in Illinois then in Florida. At seven years, it déménagat again, this time in South Africa, then in Australia before turning over to the the United Kingdom to the beginning of the year 1970.

Biography

He studied with universitée the Chigwell and the university of Cambridge where he étudiat Philosophy, political sciences and social, and where he took part in the theater amateur of Cambridge (Footlights). He became writer of comedies and a performer in the series Radio 4 of the BBC.

Its first history published was The Man Who Drew Cats which gained the price of Fantasy Britannique 1991 of the best news. Its first novel - fast Forward movement - published in 1994 gained the price August Derleth of the best novel in 1995. In 1996 its second novel, Brothers of flesh , was published, the company DreamWorks of Steven Spielberg retained the cinematographic rights of them. Whereas the rights were unutilised, Dreamworks produced The Island, whose history has strong similarities with Frères of flesh , though Michael Marshall Smith does not consider those sufficient to continue an legal action for plagiarism. He considers now not very probable that Frères of flesh is one day adapted.

The novel the Men of straw was the first with being written under a shortened name: Michael Marshall . This name change is in an original manner with the publication of another book under the same name in 2001 by Martin J. Smith . At all events, Michael Marshall Smith then decided to use this separation to publish various types of books under the two names. " novels modernes" under the name of Michael Marshall , and those of horror and science fiction as a Michael Marshall Smith (see Iain Mr. Banks ).

Works

A few years after fast Forward movement , Michael Marshall wrote the novel which made known it, Frères of flesh . This fantastic and futuristic novel, impresses of a great cruelty but especially of a large humanity, evokes the possible consequences of the technical drifts and dehumanizing our company, supported by a scenario with the morbid suspense and the testing psychological consequences. Its trilogy - Men of straw , solitary Deaths and the Blood of the angels - continues this research of the horror, sometimes insupportable, and of a reality of human rather unpleasant.

Novels

  • fast Forward movement / Only Forward (1994)
  • Brothers of flesh / Spares (1996)
  • the prey of the dreams / One off Custom (1998)
  • Men of straw / The Straw Men (2001)
  • solitary Deaths / The Lonely Dead (Appeared in the USA under the title The Upright Man ) (2004)
  • the Blood of the angels / Blood off Angels (2005)
  • The Intruder (2007)

Novella

  • The Vaccinator (1999)
  • The Being useful (2007)

Collections

  • When God Lived in Kentish Town (edition containing four news distributed free by W H Smith to the stations of train and subway around London like in the airport of Heathrow to promote the publication of One off Custom . (pulling of 5.000 specimens)) (1998)
  • What You Make It (1999)
  • Cat Stories (2001)
  • More Tomorrow & Other Stories (2003)
  • This is now (2007)

Price

  • Price 1991 Icarus and price of the short history of the British Fantasy Society for The Man Who Drew Cats
  • Price 1992 of the short history of the British Fantasy Society for The Dark Land
  • Price 1995 of the British Fantasy Society of the best novel (price August Derleth) for fast Forward movement / Only Forward
  • Price 1996 of the short history of the British Fantasy Society for More Tomorrow
  • Price Philip K. Dick 2001 for fast Forward movement / Only Forward

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