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Laer Carroll is a retired aerospace engineer. He worked most recently at NASA and Boeing. There Laer worked on many cutting-edge projects. This included the space station, deep-space probes, military and commercial jets, UAVs, and other projects once science fiction. So it was natural when he retired he thought to become a professional sci-fi writer.

But Boeing sent him to Montreal for a week to liase with a customer during the first snowfall of the year. He stayed downtown in a turn-of-the-century renovated hotel. It was amidst a massive renovation of tall buildings, some of them near skeletons. The gently swirling snowflakes lent a mist of unreality to everything. At night, returning from dancing the Argentine tango or dining out where everyone spoke French, he might have been in a fairy city of the past or a time-devastated future city.

Mid week, in the middle of the night, he awoke in his fin de siecle room wound in his bed sheets. But in the dark he was a she in mid-1800s Ireland. Her name was ... Mary ... McCarthy. And she was in her grave.

So began the birth of the alternative history Shapechanger Tales series.

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Elizabeth Bennet: Shapechanger Jan 22, 2021

by Laer Carroll, Jane Austen

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Jane Austen's books have been adapted to movies, TV, and plays. They've inspired others to retell them in their authors' own unique ways and to create companion books.

Elizabeth Bennet: Shapechanger tries to answer the question: If Elizabeth Bennet had become an immortal shapechanger before meeting Fitzwilliam Darcy, how would the events of Pride and Prejudice be different, how the same?

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First Contact (Confederation Tales) Feb 9, 2022

by Laer Carroll

( 68 )

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All of Earth became aware of extra-solar aliens in the times described in The Space Orphan trilogy. And later met them when the aliens visited the Solar System. But the first contact with aliens happened before then. First Contact chronicles this event.

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Shapechanger's Progress (Shapechanger Tales Book 2) Sep 28, 2012

by Laer Carroll

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This sequel to Shapechanger's Birth finds immortal shapechanger Mary McCarthy working to handle the near-runaway success of her criminal organization. She also encounters another shapechanger. And discovers that her kind are not always benign.

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Atena's Businesses (Confederation Tales) Nov 9, 2021

by Laer Carroll

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Atena Ocampo has acclimated well in the miraculous Offworld Garden City. Rich when she arrived, she knew she needed more income than the trove of coins she'd brought with her.

She starts two businesses. One is planned to bloom into a media empire, helped by her two closest friends and numerous others. The other is a security firm which protects Garden City businesses, some of which have branches in all the surrounding areas.

One comes back with the news that two mules loaded with goods have been hijacked on their inbound journey. She and three helpers set out to find and recover the merchandise. What they get are much more than what they expected.

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Shapechanger's Birth (Shapechanger Tales Book 1) Nov 10, 2011

by Laer Carroll

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In 1854 Irish farmer's wife and grandmother Mary McCarthy awakens in her grave an almost skeletal young teen with extraordinary powers. She sets off to find who and what she is. Which will include orphan, laundry owner, medical doctor, scientist, inventor - and the most feared crimelord in all the British Empire.

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Sea Monster's Revenge (Shapechanger Tales Book 5) Jun 14, 2012

by Laer Carroll

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Kidnapped to be forced into prostitution but accidentally killed, marine biologist Sylvia Connelly wakes under the waters offshore of Puerto Rico a sea monster. Regaining her memories and life on land she sets out for revenge.

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Voyages of the Orphan (The Space Orphan Book 3) Feb 9, 2020

by Laer Carroll

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Jane Kuznetsov has long wanted to travel among the stars. But first she must travel the Solar System, gaining the capabilities and the expertise to do so.

Along the way she discovers that the Earth system has surprises. Such that once Cats, those blue-furred six-limbed near centaurs, lived in the asteroids. And even on Mars.

Further, she will find that Earth is known to the inhabitants of other systems. Including the friendly green-skinned humanoids the Lizards. And the not-so-friendly grey-skinned Frogs, some of whom are lurking in the Kuiper Belt.

Can Earth protect itself from the Frogs? Jane Kuznetsov is determined to make it so.

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The Super Olympian: Mystic Warrior (Shapechanger Tales Book 4) May 20, 2017

by Laer Carroll

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She is superhumanly deadly and has esoteric powers. But Olympic gold medalist Sasha Canaro hides that side of herself. Publicly she is merely a high-paid fashion model and occasional consultant to police, who call her The Bloodhound. Then she meets a billionaire industrialist who may be another immortal shapechanger. Or something even stranger. And the woman has a job for Sasha.

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The Super Olympian: Bloodhound (Shapechanger Tales Book 3) May 18, 2017

by Laer Carroll

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Olympic-bound 17-year-old Sasha Canaro wakes up from death a superhumanly strong, fast, agile, and tough shapechanger. And she has strange powers. What can feed her challenge-addiction now? Fighting crime? There is plenty of it.

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Atena's Journey (Confederation Tales) Oct 18, 2021

by Laer Carroll

( 82 )

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Atena Ocampo is a quadroon living on the west coast of Afran on the Great Southern Continent of a primitive planet in the Human Interstellar Confederation. She hears tales of a great flying city that floated down out of the sky on the west coast of the Great Northern Continent.

At first she disbelieves the accounts but gradually decides they are true, or a reflection of the truth. A deadly warrior and an experienced business woman, Atena has become bored where she lives. She decides to travel to the city to see what marvels and opportunities exist there.

She knows the journey will be long and sometimes dangerous but sets out anyway. Arriving at the marvel she finds that she now has a different kind of journey to pursue: becoming a citizen of the wonderful city.

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The Eons-Lost Orphan (The Space Orphan Book 1) Jul 15, 2018

by Laer Carroll

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Jane Doe remembered nothing about her past when she awoke naked in a park. She was unhurt and seemed 14 years old, a small pretty blond.

In the hospital and later in an orphanage her intelligence was found to be so high it could not be measured. She liked people and made friends easily. She was also incredibly agile and tough.

She was adopted by a professor and his retired school-principal wife. She liked them and was happy. But sometimes she'd look up at the night-time sky and think she must have come from there. And she decided she must return there.

This story is about how she did it.

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Amy and the Star Ranger (Confederation Tales Book 3) Mar 26, 2020

by Laer Carroll

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What happened to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan on their attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean? No one knows. No authoritative evidence has ever been found. Possibly because this is what happened to them...

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