Biography
Tom Maddox (1945–2022) was an American science fiction writer and academic. He published short stories from the mid-1980s onwards and was associated with the early cyberpunk movement. He served as a professor of literary studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
Maddox co-wrote two episodes of the television series The X-Files with William Gibson: "Kill Switch" (1998) and "First Person Shooter" (2000). His only novel, Halo, was published in 1991. He originated the term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (ICE).
