Tom Maddox
Tom Maddox is an American science fiction writer, known for his part
in the early cyberpunk movement.
His first novel was Halo, 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".
Tom is the originator of the term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics
(or ICE). According to 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unpublished story that he showed to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.
Selected Bibliography
Novels
Collections
- Magicon Original Bookmark Anthology, #4 (1989)
Shortfiction
- Snake-Eyes (1986)
- Spirit of the Night (1987)
- The Robot and the One You Love (1988)
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