Editing Michael Marshall Smith

{{Short description|British writer and screenwriter (born 1965)}}
{{Other people|Michael Smith}}
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'''Michael Paul Marshall Smith''' (born 3 May 1965) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as '''Michael Marshall''', '''M. M. Smith''' and '''Michael Rutger'''.

==Biography==
Born in [[Knutsford]], [[Cheshire]], Smith moved with his family at an early age to first [[Illinois]] and then [[Florida]]. When he was seven, the family moved again, this time to South Africa, and then to Australia before eventually returning home to England in 1973.<ref name="dark echo">{{Cite web |url=http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/archives/smith.html |title=DarkEcho Interview: Michael Marshall Smith |access-date=28 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003064151/http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/archives/smith.html |archive-date=3 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was educated in [[Chigwell]] and at [[King's College, Cambridge]], where he studied Philosophy, Social and [[Political Science]], and became involved with the [[Footlights|Cambridge Footlights]].<ref name="dark echo"/> Under the pseudonym of Michael Rutger, he became a comedy writer and performer on the [[BBC Radio 4]] series ''[[And Now in Colour]]'', which ran for two series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c8yfy/episodes/guide|title = BBC Radio 4 Extra – and Now in Colour – Episode guide}}</ref> Between 2002 and 2004, he also co-wrote material for two series of surreal comedy ''[[Dare to Believe]]''.

==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>

==Bibliography==

=== Novels ===
* ''[[Only Forward]]'' (1994, HarperCollins) – {{ISBN|978-0586217740}}
* ''[[Spares (novel)|Spares]]'' (1996, HarperCollins) – {{ISBN|978-0002246569}}
* ''[[One of Us (novel)|One of Us]]'' (1998, HarperCollins) – {{ISBN|978-0002256001}}
* ''[[Hannah Green and her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence]]'' (2017) – {{ISBN|978-0008237912}}

As M. M. Smith:

* ''[[The Servants (novel)|The Servants]]'' (2007, HarperCollins) – {{ISBN|978-0979505409}}

As Michael Marshall:

* ''[[The Straw Men]]'' (2001, HarperCollins) – {{ISBN|978-0007163960}}
* ''[[The Lonely Dead]]'' (2004):
** Published in the UK by HarperCollins – {{ISBN|978-0007163946}}
** Released in the US under the title ''The Upright Man –'' {{ISBN|978-0515136388}}
* ''Blood of Angels'' (2005, HarperCollins) – {{ISBN|978-0007163960}}
* ''The Intruders'' (2007, HarperCollins) – {{ISBN|978-0007209972|978-0061235023}}
* ''Bad Things'' (2009) – {{ISBN|978-0061434402|978-0007209989}}
* ''Killer Move'' (2011) – {{ISBN|978-1409133247}}
* ''We Are Here'' (2013) – {{ISBN|978-0316252577|978-1409136026}}

''The Anomaly'' Series, as Michael Rutger:

# ''The Anomaly'' (2018) – {{ISBN|978-1538761854}}
# ''The Possession'' (2019) – {{ISBN|978-1785767678}}

=== Novellas ===
* ''[[The Vaccinator]] '' (1999)

=== Collections ===
* ''[[When God Lived in Kentish Town]]'' (1998) – a small paperback containing four stories, distributed for free by [[WHSmith]] at [[London Underground|tube]] and rail stations around London and in [[London Heathrow Airport|Heathrow airport]] to promote the publication of ''One of Us''. 5,000 copies were produced.
* ''[[What You Make It]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Cat Stories]]'' (2001)
* ''[[More Tomorrow & Other Stories]]'' (2003)
* ''This Is Now'' (2007)
* ''Everything You Need'' (2013)
* ''The Best of Michael Marshall Smith'' (2020)

== Awards ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Society
!Award
!Category
!Nominee
!Result
|-
|1991
|[[British Fantasy Society]]
|[[British Fantasy Award|BFA]]
|Best Newcomer
|
|{{Won}}
|-
|1991
|British Fantasy Society
|BFA
|Short Fiction
|"The Man Who Drew Cats"
|{{Won}}
|-
|1992
|British Fantasy Society
|BFA
|Short Fiction
|"The Dark Land"
|{{Won}}
|-
|1995
|British Fantasy Society
|BFA
|Best Novel – [[August Derleth]] Award
|''Only Forward''
|{{Won}}
|-
|1996
|British Fantasy Society
|BFA
|Short Fiction
|"More Tomorrow"
|{{Won}}
|-
|2000
|[[Philadelphia Science Fiction Society]]
| colspan="2" |[[Philip K. Dick Award]]
|''Only Forward''
|{{Won}}
|-
|2010
|British Fantasy Society
|BFA
|Short Fiction
|"What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night"
|{{Won}}
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* ''Michael Marshall Smith: The Annotated Bibliography'' (2004) by [[Lavie Tidhar]]

==External links==
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* [https://www.michaelmarshallsmith.com/ Official Michael Marshall Smith Web site]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/vampires/newstory/smith_p1.shtml This is Now] A short story at the [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ BBC's Cult website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080202035625/http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4949601 Interview with Michael Marshall Smith for MSN UK Tech & Gadgets]
* [http://darkpartyreview.blogspot.com/2008/02/5-questions-about-thrillers.html Dark Party Review] Michael Marshall Smith Interview About the Art of the Thriller
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