Author Archives: Laer Carroll

About Laer Carroll

I am an aerospace software and systems engineer recently retired to become a professional writer. My genres include sci fi and fantasy, young adult, and technical books.

ORPHAN sequel now available

Posted on March 3, 2019

The sequel to The Eons-Lost Orphan is now available on Amazon. It is fitting though a coincidence that it comes out the same week the movie Captain Marvel premieres. The comics series started in 2012 by Kelly Sue DeConnick was … Continue reading →

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COMICS INSPIRING my BOOKS

Posted on February 17, 2019

Writers’ memories are what Lois McMaster Bujold calls a compost heap. I think of them as a treasure chest. The inspirations for the stories we craft come from this collection of sensory and emotional and mental memories. The larger and … Continue reading →

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Meet ANNA PRINCE, discover the HUMAN INTERSTELLAR CONFEDERACY

Posted on February 5, 2019

The current plan for the sequels to The Eons-Lost Orphan sees Jane and her companions travel further and further into space. Orphan 2, tentatively titled The Orphan in Near-Space, sees her make what astrophysicists call “cis-lunar space” home. This is … Continue reading →

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to: JEFF BEZOS, subject: LUNA CITY

Posted on January 20, 2019

I’m an aerospace software and systems engineer, working most recently at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and Boeing’s Phantom Works. I am now retired and spend much of each day writing, mostly fiction. I am also one of many diverse professionals … Continue reading →

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The ORPHAN on the RED CARPET

Posted on December 11, 2018

News from the Orphan sequel front: At 25 Jane Kuznetsov (the Orphan) has her first boy friend. This is normal for the people where she was born. They lived very long lives and matured much later. They might not marry … Continue reading →

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Two more stories available about THE FIRST SHAPECHANGER

Posted on November 25, 2018

I was working on two Shapechanger Tales novelettes when the Orphan appeared naked and asleep in a public park. She haunted me until I HAD to tell her story. I did that in The Eons-Lost Orphan. She haunts me still … Continue reading →

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SHUFFLE DANCE – a growing phenom

Posted on September 12, 2018

The Shuffle Dance was inspired partly by Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk. It began in Melbourne, Australia, in the ’90s and grew in Asia, including Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Japan, and especially China. At the same time it was spreading to Europe and … Continue reading →

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WOMEN with SWORDS – hypnotic

Posted on July 26, 2018

The title says it all!

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TEACHABLE ASSHOLES and the MeToo movement

Posted on July 10, 2018

I was brought up to be an asshole. A lot of men are. The main issue of the #MeToo movement for each of us men is: Are we teachable assholes? Or unteachable? The unteachables are and forever will be rapists … Continue reading →

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LAER’S POLITICS – complex, not red or blue

Posted on April 16, 2018

In these highly political times I’ve decided to openly declare my politics. They are complex, because the universe is complex. They are NOT binary: black or white (or red or blue). Or liberal or conservative. I am liberal AND conservative. … Continue reading →

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