American writer Tom Maddox is better known as the author of science fiction, as well as the pioneer of the literary terms "cyberpunk" and "electronic means of counteracting intrusion, " which subsequently found wide application among science fiction writers around the world.
Biography and career
Tom Maddox (full name Daniel Thomas Maddox) was born in October 1945 in the United States of America.
His closest friend and companion was William Gibson, an American science fiction writer who, since 1967, moved to Canada and has dual citizenship.
Together with Gibson, Tom Maddox wrote two episodes of the American science fiction television series The X-Files (The X-Files): the first under the name "Kill Switch" (Switch), the second - "First Person Shooter"
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Tom Maddox is known as a participant in the literary genre of science fiction "Cyberpunk", reflecting the decline of human development and culture against the backdrop of rapidly developing technological progress, information technology and cybernetics.
Maddox was also a professor of literature at Evergreen State College in Washington State Olympia.
Creation
The first and only novel by Tom Maddox is the famous work "Halo" ("Halo"), written in 1991. The novel tells about the possibility of moving from planet Earth to the cosmic environment, participating in the journey in the intense contemplation of the nature of artificial intelligence in a virtual reality environment. Of course, this Maddox novel is somewhat cluttered and difficult to read, but overall full of positive energy.
What is Maddox's contribution to fiction? Basically, Tom Maddox writes science fiction stories: Mind as a Weird Balloon (1985), Snake Eyes (1986), Robot and the One You Love (1988), Florida (1989), The Strange Child (1989), The Angel of Gravity (1992), The Spirit of the Night (2010).
Author of scientific terms
Tom Maddox is the author of the famous world term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics or ICE, which literally means "electronic means of counteracting intrusion" or "countermeasures of electronic intrusion." Tom Maddox showed one of the manuscripts of a story he never published that first applied the term to his friend, William Gibson, at a science fiction conference in Portland Oregon. After what he saw, Gibson asked a friend to allow him to use this abbreviation in his works. Tom Maddox agreed, as a result of which the term ICE was used in the early cyberpunk science fiction novels and stories of Gibson and was ultimately popularized in the novel Neuromancer. In the works of William Gibson, the term ICE was used to refer to software that prevents hackers from gaining access to secure computer data.
Subsequently, Tom Maddox licensed his work under a Creative Commons license.
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