Kim Lakin-Smith > Writing

"Kim Lakin-Smith's dark, lyrical prose
flows towards the poetic, making you
sigh with pleasure." Graham Joyce

Tourniquet: Tales from the Renegade City

Renegade City. Futurist gothika. Mecca of the damned. Where über rock-band, Origin, is deified and the world’s dark sub-cultures coexist under the umbrella faith of ‘Belief’...more

Celebration

with original stories from: Brian Aldiss, Stephen Baxter, Molly Brown, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, M. John Harrison, Dave Hutchinson, Kim Lakin-Smith, Ian R. MacLeod...more

Reviewed at The Fix:

“The Killing Fields” by Kim Lakin-Smith does exactly what its title implies. A whirling dervish of a story set in Shropshire Hills, “reduced to a rabid war zone by gang violence, mafia-owned cartels and vigilantism,” Regan and her sidekick, an eleven-year-old girl eke out a marginal existence in the aftermath of a near-future civil war. It’s fast, brutal, and as nihilistic as anything written since Michael Moorcock introduced Jerry Cornelius
by Colin Harvey

Myth-understandings

Featuring a World Fantasy Award winning story from Gwyneth Jones plus original stories from: Pat Cadigan, Storm Constantine, Justina Robson, Tricia Sullivan, Freda Warrington, Liz Williams, Leigh Kennedy, Kim Lakin-Smith, Deborah J. Miller...more

unearthed
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Johnny and Emmie-Lou Get Married
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The Shadow Keeper
The Ghost Story Society of Canada will be publishing one of Kim's more haunting short stories, The Shadow Keeper, in their magazine All Hallows. Expect to see it late 2008.