Laura’s latest book Up Against It was published in 2011. In Proxies, Mixon explores a near-future world in which politics and science collide over the future of human aspirations. In the course of the novel, the company's off-shore facility is threatened by a hurricane, bankruptcy, and an attack by eco-terrorists. In work Greenwar, written with her husband, Steven Gould, Mixon tells about the troubles of Emma Tooke, an executive whose company extracts energy and food from the sea. Her second novel, Glass Houses, was published in 1991. In this story, a young cadet named Jason, who attends the top training academy for intergalactic pilots, is nearly killed by an unscrupulous classmate. Mixon's first published science fiction novel, Astropilots, was written for young adults. Mixon also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya for two years in the early 1980s. In addition, she created and managed the environmental affairs department for Salomon, Inc., the parent company of Salomon Smith Barney. A chemical engineer, Mixon has worked in polymer research and in the environmental field. Simak's Ring around the Sun, at age eleven-ignited a lifelong interest in reading and writing science fiction. Mixon wrote and illustrated her own mystery-thriller and futuristic tales when she was still a child.
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