MedlemTJacksonKing

Riktigt namn

Thomas J. King Jr.

Om mitt bibliotek

Star Vigilante, The Gaean Enchantment, Little Brother's World, Retread Shop, Ancestor's World, Mother Earth's Stretch Marks, Judgment Day And Other Dreams, Kim, Stranger In A Strange Land, The Sioux Spaceman, Last Train To Rigel.

Om mig

T. Jackson King (Tom) is a professional archaeologist and journalist. He writes hard science fiction, anthropological scifi, dark fantasy/horror and contemporary fantasy/magic realism--but that didn't begin until he was 38.

Before then, college years spent in Paris and in Tokyo led Tom into antiwar activism, hanging out with some Japanese hippies and learning how often governments lie to their citizens. The latter lesson led him and a college buddy to publish the Shinjuku Sutra English language underground tabloid in Japan in 1967. That was followed by helping shut down the UT Knoxville campus in 1968 and a bus trip to Washington D.C. for the Second March on Washington where thousands demanded an end to the Vietnam War.

Temporary sanity returned when Tom worked in a radiocarbon lab at UC Riverside and earned an MA degree in archaeology from UCLA. His interests in ancient history, ancient cultures and journalism got him several government agency jobs that paid the bills, led him to roam the raw landscape of the Western United States, and helped him raise three kids.

A funny thing happened on the way to normality. By the time he was 38 and doing federal arky work in Colorado, Tom's first novel STAR TRADERS was a stage play in his head that wouldn't go away. So he wrote it down. It got rejected. His next novel was published as RETREAD SHOP (Warner Books, 1988). It was off to the writing races and Tom's many voyages of imaginative discovery have led to more published novels, a book of poetry, and a conviction that when humans reach the stars, we will find them crowded with space-going aliens. We will be the New Kids On The Block. This theme appears in much of Tom's short fiction and novel writing, including the world he built for STAR VIGILANTE, a military scifi/Robin Hood In Space novel.

His other published books are THE GAEAN ENCHANTMENT (2012, Wilder Publications), LITTLE BROTHER'S WORLD (2010, Fantastic Books), JUDGMENT DAY AND OTHER DREAMS (2009, Fantastic Books), ANCESTOR’S WORLD (1996, Ace Books; with A.C. Crispin) and RETREAD SHOP (1988, Warner Books). His poetry has appeared in the collection MOTHER EARTH'S STRETCH MARKS (2009, Motherbird Books). His short stories have appeared in the magazines Analog, Pulphouse, Tomorrow, Absolute Magnitude, The Silver Web, VB Tech Journal, Expanse, Aberrations, Figment, Pandora and Midnight Zoo.

Tom is a graduate of UCLA (M.A. 1976, in archaeology) and the University of Tennessee (B.Sc. 1971, in journalism). Some of his favorite scifi authors are Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, David Brin, Isaac Asimov, Alan Dean Foster, David Drake, Ann Crispin, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Sawyer, Pamela Sargent, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Jerry Oltion, Allen Steele, A. E. Van Vogt and James White. His three grown children are Keith, Karen and Kevin. Tom and his wife Cathy live in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, where he writes scifi stories, scifi novels, contemporary fantasy and Gaean poetry. Visit his author's page at www.sff.net/people/t-jackson-king.

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Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

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http://www.sff.net/people/t-jackson-king

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