Michael Carroll was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1966. At the age of 16 he left school and worked as a postman for the following three and a half years. During that time he taught himself how to program computers, perhaps the only benefit of working unsocial hours and not having enough friends.

After leaving the post office he spent the next fourteen years in the computer industry performing a wide range of unsavoury tasks, all of which could - and often did - make a grown man cry.

Always a late developer, Carroll was in his early twenties before he started writing teenage angst poetry. After realizing that there are only so many words one can rhyme with "despair", he graduated to short fiction and then novels, most of which thus far have been of the Young Adult variety.

He now writes full-time, in a variety of genres under several pseudonyms. He is the author of nineteen novels, more than fifty short stories, hundreds of articles and countless movie and book reviews. In the past he has been chairman of the Irish Science Fiction Association, editor of its fiction magazine FTL, co-founder of, editor of and regular contributor to the humour magazine PFJ, a member of the Executive Committee of the Irish Writers' Union and editor of its newsletter.

In his spare time - of which there is not enough - he dabbles with computer graphics, designs and manages websites, writes autobiographical pieces in the third person and does his best to avoid being drafted onto any more committees. Michael Carroll has no children, but he does have a wife and two cats, all of whom are very cute (particularly the former).

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Renegade
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