His story "Snake Eyes" appeared in the 1986 collection Mirrorshades, edited by Bruce Sterling.

They wrote two episodes of The X-Files together, "Kill Switch" and "First Person Shooter".

According to him,[1] he coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland, Oregon.

The term was then used in Gibson's early short stories and eventually popularized in the novel Neuromancer, in which Maddox was acknowledged.

Maddox also served as a professor of literary studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.