Sean Flynn

Sean Flynn’s earliest passions were dinosaurs, space exploration, and science fiction. Star Wars and Starlog magazine expanded his interests to filmmaking and special effects. With the introduction of the Apple ][ computer, he discovered that it’s more fun to compute. Dungeons and Dragons, Gamma World, and Traveller opened worlds of adventure and systems of shared storytelling. He studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. His first job as a software engineer was at Apple, where he and his team developed the revolutionary software testing tool Virtual User. He set off from Apple to join a series of start-ups homesteading on the rugged frontier of digital multimedia. In a bid to escape California, he joined Microsoft, where he spent the rest of his engineering career. He helped the Magic School Bus explore the solar system, fought in the Browser Wars, built the search engine for the Windows 7 XPS electronic document viewer, and worked on the Windows Shell Team. Today he lives, works, hikes, and bikes in the Cascade foothills east of Seattle. He strives to tell interesting stories that are fair to their characters and their worlds. With a certain virus in the air and murder hornets advancing from the north, he published his first novel, Raether's Enzyme, under S. L. Flynn in 2020.