Tom Maddox

Tom Maddox is an American science fiction writer, known for his part in the early cyberpunk movement.

His first novel was "Halo" (ISBN 0-312-85249-5), published in 1991 by Tor Books. His story "Snake Eyes" appeared in the 1986 collection "Mirrorshades", edited by Bruce Sterling.

He is perhaps best-known as a friend and writing partner of William Gibson. They wrote two episodes of "The X-Files" together, "Kill Switch" and "First Person Shooter".

Maddox is the originator of the term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (or ICE). According to Maddox [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tom_Maddox] , he coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to William Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland, Oregon. Gibson asked permission to use the acronym, and Maddox agreed. The term was then used in Gibson's early short stories and eventually popularized in the novel "Neuromancer", in which Maddox was properly acknowledged.

Tom Maddox has licensed his work under a Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/ License] , making a significant part of it available on his website: [http://www.tommaddox.net/writing/?page_id=13 Tom Maddox Fiction and Nonfiction Archive] .

Works

Novels

* "Halo (1991)"

hort Stories

* "The Mind Like a Strange Balloon (1985)"
* "Snake-Eyes (1986)"
* "Spirit of the Night (1987)"
* "The Robot and the One You Love (1988)"
* "Florida (1989)"--not really a short story but a very short broadside--a "bookmark"--contributed to [http://www.members.tripod.com/stromata/id381.htm Magicon] .
* "Baby Strange (1989)"
* "Gravity's Angel (1992)"

External links

* [http://www.dthomasmaddox.com/Fiction.html An Incomplete Tom Maddox Fiction Archive]
* [http://www.dthomasmaddox.com/NonFiction.html An Incomplete Tom Maddox NonFiction Archive]
* [http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/1/Publications/LOCUS Tom Maddox reports on the Electronic Frontier] series of articles for Locus Magazine
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