Editing Michael Marshall Smith (section)

==Writing career==
Smith's first published story was "The Man Who Drew Cats", which won the [[British Fantasy Award]] in 1991 for "Best Short Story".<ref name="dark echo"/> He has been published in ''[[Postscripts]]''.  His first novel, ''[[Only Forward]]'', was published in 1994 and won the [[August Derleth Award]] for Best Novel in 1995, and then the [[Philip K. Dick Award]] in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_michael_marshall|title = Authors : Smith, Michael Marshall : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia}}</ref> The plot involves the lead character, Stark, having to find a missing man he believes to have been kidnapped, and travel through the strange zones of his city.  In 1996 his second novel, ''Spares'', was released, a novel in which the lead character, Jack, goes on the run with clones who are used for spare body parts for rich people, when he realises they are people with feelings.  [[Steven Spielberg]]'s [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks]] purchased the film rights for Spares, but a film was never made. When the rights lapsed, DreamWorks did produce ''[[The Island (2005 film)|The Island]]'', whose plot had strong similarities to ''Spares'', though Smith did not consider it worthwhile to pursue legal action over the similarities. He now considers it unlikely a ''Spares'' film will ever be made.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.michaelmarshallsmith.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=123 |title=Michael Marshall Smith Forum - Does *THIS* sound familiar |access-date=2005-12-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050313232344/http://www.michaelmarshallsmith.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=123 |archive-date=13 March 2005 }}</ref>

The novel ''The Straw Men'' was the first to be written under the shortened name "Michael Marshall".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_michael_marshall|title = Authors : Smith, Michael Marshall : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia}}</ref> This change of name was originally due to the publishing of another book of the same name in 2001 by Martin J. Smith. However, Marshall Smith then decided to use the split to offer the possibility of publishing different genres of books under the two names – "modern day" novels as Michael Marshall, and [[Horror fiction|horror]]/science fiction as Michael Marshall Smith.

In 2012 he set up Ememess Press, a virtual small press specialising in producing electronic versions of the short fiction written under the name Michael Marshall Smith.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ememess.com/about/index.html|title=About us &#124; ememess press}}</ref>

''[[Intruders (TV series)|Intruders]]'', a television series on [[BBC America]], is based on Smith's 2007 novel ''The Intruders''.<ref>{{cite news|title=John Simm to star in BBC America drama Intruders|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25713249|access-date=28 January 2014|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=13 January 2014}}</ref>