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What is Only forward about?

tark 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.

When was Only forward published?

Only forward was published in 1994.

Who made Only forward?

Only forward was written by Michael Marshall Smith.