After leaving school at sixteen he worked as a postman and following a knee injury he moved into computer programming in 1985 at the age of nineteen. In 1990 he met his future wife Leonia Mooney, at The National Irish Science Fiction Convention, Octocon. He was a co-founder of the small-press magazine PFJ first published in October 1991. Having attended the Irish Science Fiction Association writing classes held by Michael Scott he decided to set his mind to becoming a full time writer, and finally did so in 1999.

Novels and novellas

• Moonlight (ISBN 978-0862783549, O'Brien Press, October 1993) Published in Italy as "Chi Ha Rapito Chiarodiluna" and in Canada as Clair-De-Lune
• She Fades Away (ISBN 978-1853716218, Poolbeg Press, April 1996)German: Die Schrift im Spiegel
• The Throwback (ISBN 978-1587153921, Cosmos Books, July 2001)
• Renegade (ISBN 978-1587153938, Cosmos Books, August 2001)

Pelicos Trilogy

• The Last Starship (ISBN 1-58715-389-0, Cosmos Books, July 2001. Originally published as ISBN 189775115X, Aran Book Publishers, June 1993)
• Reclaiming the Earth (ISBN 1-58715-390-4, Cosmos Books, July 2001)
• The Dead Colony (ISBN 1-58715-391-2, Cosmos Books, July 2001)

Published under the name Jaye Carroll

• If the Shoe Fits (978-1853719578 , Poolbeg, March 2000) Polish title: XXL (Amber, 2002)
• The Sweetest Feeling (ISBN 978-1842230497 , Poolbeg Press, July 2001) Polish title: Smak Zemsty (Amber, 2002)
• Loving the Stars (ISBN 978-1842230695 , Poolbeg Press, June 2002) Polish title: Gwiazda Estrady (Amber, 2003)
• Looking for Mr. Wrong (ISBN 978-1842231487 , Poolbeg Press, August 2004)

The New Heroes

The New Heroes series (known in America as Quantum Prophecy) includes:

• The Quantum Prophecy (ISBN 978-0007210923, HarperCollins, January 2006) USA title: The Awakening (ISBN 0399247254, Philomel Books, April 2007)
• Sakkara (ISBN 978-0007210930 , HarperCollins, October 2006) USA title:The Gathering (ISBN 978-0399247262, Philomel Books, July 2008)
• Absolute Power (ISBN 978-0007210947 HarperCollins, July 2007)

Short stories

• The New Heroes: Superhuman(MaxEdDal Publications, November 2007) A collection of stories set in the universe of The New Heroes:
• "A Decade Without Heroes"
• "What I Did on My Holidays"
• "The Offer"
• "Pressure"
• "The Footsoldiers"
• "Out of Sight"
• "Flesh and Blood"
• "Scholarship Boy"
• "One Million"

• Emerald Eye (ISBN 0-95347844-0, Aeon Press Books, 2005):
• "In Dublin's Veracity" (Reprinted as part of the anthology. Originally published in Albedo 1 #7)

• FTL:
• Issue 4 (1990): "The Hummingbirds" (First published fiction)
• Issue 8 (1991): "Sight Out of Mind"
• Issue 10 (1991): "Return of the Wanderers"

• Moonpaper:
• March 1992: "A Victory of Love"
• March and April 1994: "The Mirror"

• First Contact:
• Volume 1, Issue 2 (December, 1992): "Fit the Last"
• Issue 8 (1993): "A Sense of Great Pain"

• The Brentford Mercury:
• Issue 1 (1993): "Hate Story"
• Issue 2 (1995): "A Christmas Carroll" (As Michael Story)
• Issue 12 (1998): "Jakes' Big Plan"
• Issue 13 (1998): "Show Me a Place that Ain't Hell"
• Issues 14-19 (1998—1999): "Ace Crikey: A Clear and Present Stranger" (Parts 1-6)
• Issue 25 (2001): "Ace Crikey and the Reality Machine" (Originally published in Phase One #2)
• Issues 30-32 (2002—2003): "Ace Crikey: You Can't Get There from Here" (Parts 1-3)

• Phase Three:
• Issue 1 (1993): "Pelicos" (The basis for the trilogy of science fiction novels)

• Albedo 1
• Issue 3 (1993): "Angels in Different Shapes"
• Issue 7 (1995): "In Dublin's Veracity"

• Phase One
• Issue 1 (1993): "On Glory Roads of Pure Delight"
• Issue 2 (1994): "Ace Crikey and the Reality Machine"

• Shiver! (ISBN 1853713007 Poolbeg Press, January 1994):
• "All Fall Down"
• "Sweden: Riddarens grav"
• "Ro, ro barnet"

• Chiller (ISBN 1853715123, Poolbeg Press, January 1995):
• "The Sand"

• The Federation Times:
• Summer 1995: "The Next Generation Game"

• Nightmares (ISBN 1853716324, Poolbeg Press, January 1996):
• "Knick Knock"

• First Times (ISBN 1853717622, Poolbeg Press, 1997):
• "Uneven Ground"

• Scream! No One Will Hear (ISBN 1853718785, Poolbeg, 1998):
• "Last Night of the Holidays"

• Seekers (ISBN 9780861676002, Edco, the Educational Company of Ireland, 2000):
• "Uneven Ground" (originally printed in First Times)

• The Last Starship (ISBN 1-58715-389-0, Cosmos Books, July 2001):
• "Pelicos" (Reprinted as the short story that inspired the trilogy)

• Octocon Programme Books:
• 2001: "Hitting the Deck"
• 2004: "The Sproutbank Show"

• Eurocon Programme Books
• 1997: "The Heart of Apollo"

Articles

• 2000ADReview.co.uk:
• Sprout columns (2003—present)

• Judge Dredd Megazine
• "Twenty Things to Remember when going to a Comic Convention" (Meg 245)
• "Top Twenty non-2000 AD related comics by 2000 AD creators" (Meg 250)
• "Top Twenty extraordinary 'facts' about Alan Moore" (Meg 246)

The Sprout Spinner

This was an interactive cd rom application made to accompany the The Brentford Mercury for SproutLore. The short stories written for it by Michael Carroll were all based upon songs by his favourite pop group, Alphaville. Two had been published in the Alphaville fanzine Moonpaper.

Comics

• "Overman" (with art by Johnny Rothwell, in Phase Two #2, 1994)
• "By the Book" (as Sprout, with art by Bolt-01, in FutureQuake #4, 2005)
• "Deadline" (as Sprout, with art by Julia Bax, in FutureQuake #5, 2005)
• Future Shocks: "Back to the Führer" (with art by Gary Erskine, in 2000 AD #1566, 2007)
• "Tales of the GI: In the Dark" (with art by Bolt-01, webcomic, 2000AD Review)

TV Appearances

Appeared as the guest author on The Den , RTÉ Two on January the 18 2006: