About Lyons McBean

Lyons McBean writes primarily speculative fiction in both fantasy and science fiction, without preferring either genre. Grounded in a history of ravenously consuming mass-market paperbacks by the early masters and mistresses of both genres from the 1950s through the 1980s, a childhood passion for D&D, and a lifelong fascination with how things actually work, his style tends more toward the old way of presenting both genres than the modern. His works tend to mix fantasy, satire, absurdity, and a persistent suspicion that any simple problem will be made vastly more complicated when supposedly responsible adults get involved (with an emphasis on politicians, bureaucrats, and of course, lawyers). 

As a practicing lawyer since 1998, Lyons also falls back on a series of precision skills in rationality, writing, and deduction… skills often undervalued in speculative fiction novels. And armed with this experience, fortunately or unfortunately, Lyons will occasionally overlay otherwise fanciful stories with the realities (and banalities) of the legal profession, grounding the extraordinary in real-world detail. Even when magic or superior technology is involved, Lyons will take you behind the curtain to learn how things would really work when ordinary people with real reactions and emotions have to interact with them. 

flifferschmeep is his first published novel, released in September 2026.