Tengo que empezar diciendo que, en general, no soy aficionada a los libros de relatos y, cuando suelo ceder, normalmente lo hago si estos son de género: fantasía, ciencia ficción, terror. Short stories are an art form all of their own, and Michael Marshall Smith is one of the masters. disappointing, adults could be Hell Hath Enlarged Herself, a story of tech-horror that would make Michael Crichton cower in fear A Place to Stay, which is a gorgeous and troubling little vampire story - I think and the best of the bunch, The Man Who Drew Cats, which is one of those pieces of fiction that make you want to applaud the bravura you've just been witness to. There are three or four real beauties in here: Everybody Goes, one of those achingly gorgeous little tales that take you right back to the days when you were a kid and just starting to become aware of how weird and scary and. This was just as enjoyably terrifying as it was first time around, and if some of the technology in the stories has dated a bit in the twenty years since its release, the ideas behind it have only become more relevant.
The comparison is probably unfair to MMS, who is very much his own voice. Not literally,because that would be a waste of great talent. Whenever I try to push Michael Marshall Smith on people (and I do, frequently), I always say he's what you'd get if you threw Philip K Dick, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and Clive Barker into a blender. All good things must come to an end, mustn't they? '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. 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. The collection is stuffed with surreal, disturbing gems '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 'I've found God'. It's included here along with many others, some unpublished, which show the incredible versatility of one of the most exciting writers working in Britain today.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 first piece of fiction Smith ever wrote - a short story called The Man Who Drew Cats - won the World Fantasy award. The first ever collection of Michael Marshall Smith's award-winning short stories.
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