Michael Owen Carroll (born 21 March 1966) is an Irish writer of novels and short stories for adults and children.
In 1990 he met his future wife, Leonia Mooney, at the first Octocon (the modern series of Irish National Science Fiction Conventions).
He was an Octocon committee member in 1992, 1997 and 2003–2004, and in 2004 he succeeded James Brophy as chairperson, overseeing a successful convention, after the event took a break in 2003, with guest-of-honour Tanith Lee.
[1] The Third Law, The Process of Elimination, and For I Have Sinned (which were e-books) were collected in an omnibus paperback volume called Rico Dredd: The Titan Years in 2019.
The New Heroes series (known in America as Quantum Prophecy) includes: The Sprout Spinner is an interactive CD-ROM application made to accompany The Brentford Mercury for SproutLore.