Talk:Tom Maddox

Coinage of ICE

Just a note from the subject about the claim on the Tom Maddox (stub) page. It contains this statement:

"Maddox coined the term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics on Usenet."

That's not true. I coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to William Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland, Oregon.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 "steal" the acronym, and I agreed and didn't think much more about it until Neuromancer was published, where I was acknowledged as the creator of ICE.

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Are you Tom Maddox? I'm a bit confused by your use of pronouns in the comment above. You wrote: "I coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to William Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland, Oregon." Who is "he" in that sentence?

—Lowellian (reply) 07:22, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, oops, sorry about the pronoun confusion on the entry. I'm the guy all right. I'm not sure what the convention is here. Given that I was making a first-person claim, should it be "Tom Maddox says that he ..."? That would be fine. The main thing is, I didn't want to be vanity editing my own page, but I do have first-person knowledge of the statement. Not sure what to do about that. Thanks, Tom Tom Maddox 19:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Coinage of ICE

Links to the website of Tom Maddox are broken. The website is broken. 217.229.22.216 (talk) 20:57, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

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Possible death

A friend of Tom Maddox tweeted about his apparent death on October 18, 2022 at (1) Ellen Datlow on Twitter: "RIP Tom Maddox, a terrific writer of sf, a brilliant blues guitarist, and a good guy. Gone too soon. (He had a stroke a couple of weeks ago, died in his sleep the 18th)." / Twitter (https://twitter.com/EllenDatlow/status/1582906934721941504). I'm not aware of any credible sources confirming this, but given the source it seems probable. Llachglin (talk) 17:05, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

His brother has confirmed the news of his deatb to William Gibson -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 19:24, 20 October 2022 (UTC)