Books by Michael Carroll
Style: Weak → Average
Attitude: Take Care → Unobjectionable
10 years after all the superheroes and supervillains in the world disappeared in the wake of a titanic battle, a few youngsters start to develop superpowers, but are soon kidnapped by a mysterious organisation.
Comic-book style superhero action; moral dilemmas, some driven by visions of the future.
Growing-Up, SciFi
Style: Weak → Average
Attitude: Unobjectionable
Sakkara is a secret US base to which young superheroes Danny, Colin and Renata are taken when their identities are exposed.
Lightweight young superhero thriller with typically violent action scenes. Slightly disturbing prophetic images. Impossible moral decision leading to a character's death.
Adventure, SciFi, Thought-provoking
Style: Weak → Average
Attitude: Some Care Needed → Unobjectionable
The New Heroes, second-generation superpowered youngsters, have to make difficult decisions when their leader Colin runs away and they are under political attack from the worldwide Trutopian organisation led, unknown to them, by their enemy Victor Cross and the mind-controlling Yvonne.
Comic-book style superhero action; mind-control; the morality of military action; morality of prison conditions; human cloning.
SciFi, Thought-provoking