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An Incomplete Archive of

Tom Maddox's Fiction

STORIES

The Mind Like a Strange Balloon

Here's my first published story, from OMNI, June, 1985. Remarkably, I can still read it without suffering toxic shock.

Click here to read it.

The Robot and the One You Love

A story, also published in OMNI, concerning love, industrial espionage, and robots. Or something like that. Click here to read it.

Gravity's Angel

A story published in OMNI—I see a trend developing here—concerning the Superconducting Supercollider that might have been. Click here to read it.

Snake Eyes

This is my mainline cyberpunk story, published first in OMNI then in Bruce Sterling's Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. I think this is the Japanese OMNI cover.

It's gotten around.

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Florida

Calling this a story is a stretch. It's a tiny piece that fits on a bookmark, published as a contribution to the anthology named above, for the 1989 Magicon in Orlando, Florida.

Click here to read it.

NOVEL

Halo

This novel was originally published by Tor Books in 1992 to what I regard as a gratifying reception: lots of reviews, mostly enthusiastic, and good sales for a little-known author.

It is now out of print, and I am delighted to continue making it available on the web.

Click here to read the complete novel in one file.

You can also read it in five parts:

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

SCREENPLAY

Killswitch

William Gibson and I collaborated on two scripts for the X Files. The first, "Killswitch," showed on Fox Television, Feb. 15, 1998, in the shows's 5th season; the second, "First Person Shooter, showed February 27, 2000, in the shows's 7th season.

Click here to read "Killswitch."