Everything You Need
'[Smith] recalls Stephen King s ability to set a story in the world of the commonplace, then suddenly jolt it into a more hellish realm' --Janet Maslin, New York Times'It s not his craft and skill that Michael Marshall Smith displays in his short stories that I object to. It s not the easy wit, or the comfortable way he deploys language as a weapon. It s not even that way that he can conjure people so real in so few words. It s that, when a Mike Smith short story is over, it s pretty much guaranteed that there will be some moment, scene, or revelation frozen in the back of my mind that I ll never be able to get out of my head, not even if I scrub it with wire wool so it bleeds.' --Neil Gaiman'It s not his craft and skill that Michael Marshall Smith displays in his short stories that I object to. It s not the easy wit, or the comfortable way he deploys language as a weapon. It s not even that way that he can conjure people so real in so few words. It s that, when a Mike Smith short story is over, it s pretty much guaranteed that there will be some moment, scene, or revelation frozen in the back of my mind that I ll never be able to get out of my head, not even if I scrub it with wire wool so it bleeds.' --Neil Gaiman'It s not his craft and skill that Michael Marshall Smith displays in his short stories that I object to. It s not the easy wit, or the comfortable way he deploys language as a weapon. It s not even that way that he can conjure people so real in so few words. It s that, when a Mike Smith short story is over, it s pretty much guaranteed that there will be some moment, scene, or revelation frozen in the back of my mind that I ll never be able to get out of my head, not even if I scrub it with wire wool so it bleeds.' --Neil Gaiman