Series
Halo (Tom Maddox)
Tom Maddox · 1 novel · 4 short stories · 1985–1991
Halo (1991) was Tom Maddox's only novel, a work of early cyberpunk fiction published by Tor Books. Maddox was part of the cyberpunk movement alongside William Gibson (with whom he later collaborated on The X-Files) and coined the term Gibson popularized as 'ICE' in Neuromancer; Halo remains his sole full-length work in the genre.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Halo (Tom Maddox) at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1980s3
- 1990s2
Shape
1 novel · 4 short stories
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionidentitynear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Halodarkest · calmest
- Snake-Eyesbrightest · most intense