What You Make It

STRANGE THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGESWelcome to a late-night flip across channels you've never seen before. Lovers, killers, ordinary people - in worlds where the ordinary has been left far behind. A pavement artist with remarkable powers, and a medium whose ability could bring about the end of the world. A father whose skills with wrapping paper may hold the key to a triumph over death ... and a diet plan you'd be well advised not to follow.In 'What You Make It', the extraordinary short stories of Michael Marshall Smith are collected together for the first time, invluding a number of previously unpublished works. Some will show you things you think you already know, parts of life that seem all too familiar - and yet which warp under close scrutiny. Others will tell you things you won't want to believe, but you'll have to. This book contains seventeen worlds, seventeen lives, seventeen 'doors', left slightly ajar. You're invited as you are. But you'll have changed by the time you come out.PRAISE FOR MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH"A storytelling skill which can only be described as pure genius" VENUE"As genre-defining as William Gibson and as relentlessly readable as Michael Crichton" MAXIM"Tightly written and teetering precariously between reality and surreality, these savage tales reverberate long after the closing line" METRO LONDON"Comic, cruel, twisted and surreal" EMPIRE"Smith is a hot property . . . This collection of short stories shows a compellingly readable talent . . . Chilling stuff" TIME OUT