Books and Short Stories
“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
“Renegade has the feel of poetry about it, but it is edgy, dangerous stuff. To read it out loud would be less a lyrical waxing than an invocation of something smoky and menacing, adorned with horn and hoof. It is a cloacal, treacly mix of gothic thriller, urban paranoid examination and scarred, black magic treatise.”
Conrad Williams.
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The Harvest
Published in the anthology Further Conflicts. Thirteen tales of human striving, of ingenuity, brilliance, desperate action, conflict, and resolution. Thirteen tales of Science Fiction at its finest. Stories by Lauren Beukes, Gareth L Powell, Eric Brown, Kim Lakin-Smith, Adam Roberts and more.
Available to buy from Newcon Press, Amazon and Kindle.
Kim Lakin-Smith’s The Harvest portrays a gas-lit future of decaying buildings and a society that has degenerated into near anarchy. Pollution has contaminated Wiltshire and turned some people into monsters. It’s up to Bluze Christchurch to defend the children of Ridgeway School from flesh-seeking attackers. I enjoyed this action-packed story due to its creepily atmospheric combination of old and new, with pig iron and mist and creatures that are part cyborg, part Frankenstein’s monster. WarpCore SF http://www.warpcoresf.co.uk/further-conflicts.php
The Killing Fields
Published in the anthology Celebration commemorating 50 years of the BSFA 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
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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
Heart Song
Published in 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
Johnny and Emmie-Lou Get Married
Johnny and Emmie-Lou Get Married is a take on Romeo and Juliet based in an alternative future. Two opposing gangs, a forbidden love and a steam powered muscle car street race. Published in Interzone 222. Shortlisted for 2009′s British Science Fiction Association’s short story award…more
Unearthed
Published in Black Static 12
The Shadow Keeper
Published in Black Static 13
After attaining a first class honours degree in English Lit and Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan, Kim was awarded a Studentship to study for her MA in Writing at Nottingham Trent. There she was tutored by Graham Joyce, thrice winner of the British Fantasy award. She also became fascinated by the Internet, skills she later put to use in her work as a copywriter, advertising exec, and website designer. But it was her desire to write fantasy and science fiction novels which soon took precedence. 