First novel. Winner of the August Derleth Award.
"In Only Forward Michael Marshall Smith delivers that rarest of sf commodities: a genuinely new twist on standard genre riffs with a punchline of Crying Game proportions. It announces itself as weapons-grade cyber narrated in over-the-top private eye first person (William Gibson rewritten by Barry Fantoni?) before morphing into something about as un-cyber as it gets." --Charles Murray (in Time Out ).
"Michael Marshall Smith's Only Forward is a dark labyrinth of a book: shocking, moving and surreal. Violent, outrageous and witty -- sometimes simultaneously -- it offers us a journey from which we return both shaken and exhilarated. An extraordinary debut". --Clive Barker.
