2084 f470f72d-a9b8-4b85-8ac1-89f771422c54 Only Forward Michael Marshall Smith calibre (2.43.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1994-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 <p class="description">Michael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield. Stark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings -- a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn't make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw. Then there's Red -- get off at Fuck Station Zero if you want to see a tactical nuclear battle recreated as a sales demonstration. Stark has friends in Red, which is just as well because Something is about to happen. And when a Something happens it's no good chanting 'Duck and cover' while cowering in a corner, because a Something is always from the past, Stark's past, and it won't go away until you face it full on.</p> HarperCollins (UK) http://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?25035 eng Novel philip k dick award finalist Science-Fiction philip k dick award winner Fiction _isfdb Win of 1995 BFA Award for August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)