new scifi adventure novel LITTLE BROTHER'S WORLD is forthcoming in 2010 from Fantastic Books

FREE STUFF

• Businessweek Online article on T. Jackson King
• Upbeat short poems
• Archaeology poems
• Desert poems
• Class warfare poems
• Land poems
• Dark short poems
• The Totem short story  
• Experience the wonder of an America where science and technology are failing as Earth magic becomes real. (Never before published story included in JUDGMENT DAY collection).
• Lex Talionis short story
• Ponder whether cannibalism of another thinking species is a reasonable choice for survival--by three children. (Never before published story included in JUDGMENT DAY collection).
• False Contact short story
• Explore the deadly effect of relying on politically correct cliches during humanity's First Contact with an alien species. (Never before published story included in JUDGMENT DAY collection).
• First chapter, STAR OF ISLAM
• Helen Sarkissian had always wanted to be the first Human to talk to Aliens. But was signing on as crew aboard a Shiite-run starship the answer? Or would she and every other Western humanist on board The Sword of Islam end up dead from Shia bloodlust? Then again, the Aliens already on the world the Shia had assumed to be empty might have an opinion about everyone's survival.
• First chapter, LITTLE BROTHER'S WORLD
• Little Brother had survived as an orphan on the colony planet Mother's World by following two rules. First you grabbed anything edible before the valuables. Second, you never talked to the garbage. But then the garbage--a Pube girl named Sally--talked to him. Before he knew it, he was running to escape the attention of The Church of the Flesh and had begun a quest to learn why he alone had been born without the GeneCode tatoo that set one's status, job and destiny.
• First chapter, STAR VIGILANTE
• Matt Dragoneaux was an interstellar hired gun who followed the Code of the Vigilante: track ‘em, strike ‘em, and be elsewhere when the Anarchate battlecruisers showed up. But then an albino woman hired him to right a wrong being done to her planet by a commercial conglomerate that ruled star clusters. He did not realize he was on track to becoming the deadliest Vigilante in Human history--or that humanity's survival among the crowded stars might be the price for success in his job.
• First chapter, THE LAST HUMANS
• Earth lay dead. Seven billion were murdered, sixteen were left alive and the alien Skrill pursued them. Each member of humanity's only starship wondered how long they could live with the guilt of their survival. None of them believed their sublight starship The Götterdämmerung might actually reach Andromeda Galaxy. None of them had any reason to live other than habit--until Ephraim Halliday enlisted the most basic of biological urges in service to species survival and found to his surprise that all the Gods and Goddesses of Earth rode with them into the Great Dark. As did the souls of seven billion dead.
• Interview with Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula/Hugo award author
• Scientific publications bibliography
  

BOOKS

"Congratulations on the long overdue story collection, Tom! What I find most terrific is your range of topics and styles. You have always been an explorer."--David Brin, Hugo and Nebula Award winner.

"I sometimes think a writer's greatest virtues are persistence and endurance, and it seems as if you have them." --Roger Zelazny, Hugo and Nebula Award winner.

RETREAD SHOP

Buy from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Retread-Shop-Questar-Jackson-King/dp/0445206748 --an alien-controlled galactic bazaar of unimaginable wealth, rigid caste systems, and ancient cutthroat rivalries. Young Billy McGuire, its only human, was unwanted, scorned and forced to steaL for his living. But now he has a patron, a mysterious alien trader and a new ambition: to become the Shop's first human Merchant no matter what the odds. Questar/Warner Books, 1988, 276 pages, paperback, ISBN 0-445-20674-8. (Price from author: $8, shipping included; order via mailed check or email to tjacksonking@hotmail.com).

MOTHER EARTH'S STRETCH MARKS

Buy from Author: http://motherbird.com/TJacksonKing/

A sixty-page collection of poems devoted to the Land, Critters, Desert, Class Warfare, Loss and Memories, written from the perspective of an archeologist who's roamed the Western U.S. deserts, mountains and rivers for many years. The collection celebrates Gaea/Mother Earth/the Land/The Big Lonesome, along with a few poems reflective of Hippie politics, irreverent science, Siberia, Switzerland and special memories from the last 40 years. Motherbird Books, 2009, 60 pages, perfect-bound trade paperback, ISBN 978-1-60459-715-8. (Price from author: $5, shipping included; order via check to Tom King, 353 Grand Canyon Drive, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA).

ANCESTOR'S WORLD

Buy from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Starbridge-Ancestors-Crispin-Jackson-Starbridge/dp/0441003516
On the planet Na-Dina, in Ancestor's Valley, the tombs of forty-one dynasties have lain undisturbed for six thousand years. But with the visitors from the stars has come progress, threatening the valley and its treasures. The human archeologist Gordon Mitchell and his team from StarBridge labor to salvage whatever possible from the royal burial sites. Some of the Na-Dina welcome them. Some resent their presence and the delay to rapid industrialization they represent. Still, Mitchell intends to fully explore the wonders of the Valley before it is flooded by a giant dam. Then one of the team is brutally murdered. To investigate his death, Cooperative League of Systems Ambassador At-Large Mahree Burroughs arrives, determined to find the killer whatever the cost. What she finds during her search will change her life, the lives of the Na-Dina and the lives of every being in the CLS forever. Ace Books/Berkeley Publishing, 1996, 304 pages, paperback, ISBN 0-441-00351-6; a novel of StarBridge.  (Price from author: $10, shipping included; order via mailed check or email to tjacksonking@hotmail.com).

REVIEWS

ANCESTOR'S WORLD

“T. Jackson King is a professional archaeologist and he uses that to great advantage in Ancestor’s World. I was just as fascinated by the details of the archaeology procedures as I was by the unfolding of the plot . . . The novel opens with the discovery of artifacts from the lost colony of the Mizari in a tomb of an ancient Na-Dina emperor. This is a discovery that the modernist faction of the Na-Dina do not want getting out, and some of them will do anything to keep it under wraps. What follows is a tightly plotted, suspenseful novel.”

---Absolute Magnitude magazine

“Another of A.C. Crispin’s StarBridge adventures, this one fleshed out by T. Jackson King, whose work appears on the shelves much too seldom. There is a murder on the world of Na-Dina, at an archaeological dig in Ancestor’s Valley where Human and other archaeologists are in the process of finding artifacts that contradict the beliefs of many of the planet’s natives. The murder is only one element of the plot, but its solution winds up the story nicely. We meet several characters from earlier in the series, along with fascinating members of other races. Good cover by Duane O. Myers. Recommended.”

---Norm Hartman, Book Net #10

“The latest in the StarBridge series from King, a former Rogue Valley resident now living and writing in Arizona, follows the action on planet Na-Dina, where the tombs of 46 dynasties have lain undisturbed for 6,000 years until a human archaeologist and a galactic gumshoe show up. Set your phasers for fun.”

---Mail Tribune newspaper, Medford, OR

RETREAD SHOP

“Engaging alien characters, a likeable protagonist, and a vividly realized world make King's first sf novel a good purchase for sf collections.”

--Library Journal

“The writing is sharp, the plotting tight, and the twists ingenious. It would be worth reading, if only for the beautiful delineations of alien races working with and against one another against the background of an interstellar marketplace. The story carries you . . . with a verve and vigor that bodes well for future stories by this author. Recommended.”

--Science Fiction Review

“A very pleasant tour through the author's inventive mind, and an above average story as well.”

--Science Fiction Chronicle

“Fun, with lots of outrageously weird aliens.”

--Locus

“Similar in feel to Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway series is Retread Shop by T. Jackson King. It's an orphan-human-in-alien-society-makes-good story. Well-written and entertaining, it could be read either as a Young Adult or as straight SF with equal enjoyment.”

--Chuq Von Rospach, OtherRealms 22

“I like the story very much indeed . . . because the whole technical concept of the Shop, its sheer size and raison d’etre, and the vast time-scale . . . and the adept handling of those characters and technologies . . . makes the story . . . both utterly incredible and completely believeable. That made the short hair at the back of my neck prickle and . . . it still does. . . One hell of a hard act to follow.”

--British writer James White, author of the Sector General series.

“King creates for us a novel that Andre Norton might have written. The details of alien biology are evocative of Alan E. Nourse, while the intricate political plotting smacks of C. J. Cherryh lightly laced with a Niven-esque whimsey. . . The best of what fantasy readers read fantasy for . . .  All of this puts Retread Shop in the newly emerging subgenre which combines the best sf logic and vision with the compelling depth and texture available so far only in the best fantasy such as Katherine Kurtz writes.”

--Jacqueline Lichtenberg, author of the Sime/Gen series

SHORT STORIES

"A Lesser Michaelangelo," The Silver Web, Issue 15, Summer 2002.

"The standout stories are "A Lesser Michaelangelo" by T. Jackson King and "The Apocrypha According to Cleveland" by Daniel Abraham. The former is an allegory about deviancy and suffering to create great art . . . For my money, it doesn't get any better weird than this."

--David Soyka, SF Site (www.sfsite.com)

"And two stories in a more traditional "horror" mode also struck me: Scott Thomas' "One Window", and T. Jackson King's "A Lesser Michelangelo". . . King's story treats of a couple, a writer and a composer, using each other for inspiration. They do so in a rather different fashion however. No real surprises here, but the description of their relationship is effective."

--Rich Horton, SF Site (www.sfsite.com)

"The concept of suffering for the sake of one's art is painfully addressed in T. Jackson King's horrific story, "A Lesser Michaelangelo." . . . This . . . story . . . is filled with disturbing imagery and, ultimately, a warped sense of dedication and love for one another. It is imaginative and shocking."

--Michael J. Jasper, TangentOnline

"Alien Blood," Aberrations 34, November 1995

"And a world--I usually (always?) buy stories that give me a whole world, a place where "sense of wonder" hasn't given way to "Wonderbread"(tm). (See T. Jackson King's "Alien Blood" in #34 for another good example of this "world" thing.)"

--Michael Andre-Driussi, WSFA Journal 1996

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Author-published as by: T. Jackson King for fiction; Tom Jackson King for non-fiction news; or Thomas J. King Jr. for scientific papers and reports.

BOOKS

Judgment Day And Other Dreams. Virginia: Fantastic Books, 2009.
Ancestor’s World. With A.C. Crispin. New York: Ace Books, 1996.
Retread Shop. New York: Warner Books/Questar, 1988.

Short Stories

“Winnowing The Chaff,” Pandora, Fall 1989, No. 24.
“Winnowing The Chaff,” M&F magazine, June 1992 (Russian reprint; Dnepropetrovsk,Uk)
“Tears For Ozymandias,” Pandora, Spring 1992, No. 27.
“The Fire Rains,” Pandora, Fall 1992, No. 28.
“The Tides of Fear,” Figment, Summer 1992, No. 10.
“The Fellowship of Manzanar,” Figment, Winter 1992, No. 12.
“The Dance,” Midnight Zoo, April 1993, Vol. 3, No. 4.
“The Memory Seller,” Expanse, Winter 1994, No. 2.
“Sumiko’s Hope,” Absolute Magnitude, Winter/Spring 1995, No. 2.
“Litter Control,” Analog, April 1995.
“Judgment Day at John’s Bar,” Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, Summer 1995, No. 19.
“Endless Summers,” Tomorrow, August 1995, No. 16.
“Judgment Day at John’s Bar,” VB Tech Journal, September 1995 (reprint).
“Alien Blood,” Aberrations, November 1995.
“The Gate of Ishtar, From Babylon, In Berlin,” Aberrations, April 1996.
“Paladin,” Absolute Magnitude, Fall/Winter 1997.
“Judgment Day at John’s Bar,” Year’s Best Fantastic Fiction, November 1997 (reprint).
“A Lesser Michaelangelo,” The Silver Web, No. 15, Winter 2002.

Poetry

“Lucerne Valley,” Xizquil 13, Summer 1995.
“Capulin Volcano,” Moongate de Homo Sentiens II:2, August 1995.
“Fence Lake,” Moongate de Homo Sentiens II:4, September 1995.
“Desert Blood,” Moongate de Homo Sentiens III:1, February 1996.
“Dead Cars,” Epitaph: Tales of Dark Fantasy and Horror, No. 2, May 1997.
“Slick Rock Slide,” Moongate de Homo Sentiens IV:2, May 1997.
“Skull Valley,” Moongate de Homo Sentiens IV:2, May 1997.
“Desert Flames,” Moongate de Homo Sentiens IV:2, May 1997.
“Texline,” Moongate de Homo Sentiens, 1997.
“Crawdad Friend,” Moongate de Homo Sentiens, 1997.
“Grandpa’s Dominoes,” Moongate de Homo Sentiens, 1997.
“Alkali Ridge,” Xizquil 16, August 1997.
Mother Earth's Stretch Marks. Silver City: Motherbird Books, 2009.

Essays

“The River of Sorrows: The Dolores River Years,” Kinesis, April 1995.

Non-Fiction

“Dolores Project Opened for Visitors,” Colorado Heritage News, July 1982
“To Agent or Not To Agent,” Pulphouse Report No. 49, February 1988.
“To Agent or Not To Agent,” MZB’s Fantasy Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 1988.
“Advances: Or, Hold On To Your Wallet,” SFWA Handbook, 1st Ed., November 1990.
“Getting Ahead of Yourself,” The Report, Issue 4, September 1991.
“Pros and Cons of Being a Writer Couple,” with Paula E. Downing, The SFWA Bulletin, Fall 1991 and Winter1992.
“How To Market Your Novel,” The SFWA Bulletin, Spring 1992.
“The Road To The Nationals,” Women & Guns, June 1992.
“Persistence and the Zen of Writing,” Byline, July/August 1992.
“Spectral View: Michael McCollum,” Figment, Fall l992, No. 11.
“Bookstore Signings: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly,” The SFWA Bulletin, Fall 1992.
“No Deposit—No Return,” Small Press: The Magazine of Independent Publishing, Fall 1992.
“Interview: Jennifer Roberson,” Science Fiction Chronicle, October 1992.
“Spectral View: Jennifer Roberson,” Figment, Winter 1992, No. 12.
“Rejection Etiquette,” Writer’s Digest, January 1993.
“Spectral View: Judith Tarr,” Figment, Spring 1993, No. 13.
Book Review of Alaska Viking: An Autobiography, Small Press, Spring 1993.
“Habitable Stars Within 100 Light Years,” The Report, March 1993.
“Interview: Judith Tarr,” Science Fiction Chronicle, April 1993.
“Interview: Vonda N. McIntyre,” Science Fiction Chronicle, May 1993.
“Spectral View: Katharine Kerr,” Figment, Summer l993, No. 14.
“Interview: Katharine Kerr,” Science Fiction Chronicle, August 1993.
“Interview: Robert J. Sawyer,” Science Fiction Chronicle, September 1993.
“Spectral View: Teresa Edgerton,” Figment, Fall l993, No. 15.
“Spectral View: Kevin J. Anderson,” Figment, Winter 1993, No. 16.
“Interview: Paula E. Downing,” Expanse, Winter l993, No. 2.
“Interview: F. M. Busby,” Science Fiction Chronicle, January 1994.
Book Review of Atlas of Micronesia: Second Edition, Small Press, Winter 1994.
“Kate Elliott: The Writer As Anthropological Historian,” Mindsparks, Jan./Feb. 1994.
“Creating Believeable Aliens,” The SFWA Bulletin, Winter-Spring 1994.
“Interview: Kevin J. Anderson,” Science Fiction Chronicle, March 1994.
“Interview: Poul Anderson,” Expanse, Spring 1994, No. 3.
Book Review of The Grey Avengers, Small Press, Spring 1994.
“Good Vibrations: The 1994 Nebula Awards Banquet,” Tangent, May-June 1994.
“Interview: Martha Soukup,” Science Fiction Chronicle, June 1994.
Book Review of Bridging Science and Spirit, Small Press, Summer 1994.
“Interview: Kevin O’Donnell Jr.,” Science Fiction Chronicle, August 1994.
“How To Use Third World Characters In Your Stories,” The Report, September 1994.
“Bio: T. Jackson King,” Tangent, September-October 1994.
“How To Be An Anthropological Writer,” Writers’ Journal, Sept./Oct. 1994 (Vol.15, #5)
“Interview: Dave Wolverton,” Science Fiction Chronicle, January 1995.
“Interview: Michael McCollom,” Zero Gravity Freefall, Summer 1995 (reprint).
“Interview: Susan Shwartz,” Science Fiction Chronicle, June/July 1995.
“Advances: Or, Hold On To Your Wallet,” SFWA Handbook, 2nd Ed., July 1995 (reprint).
“How To Market Your Novel,” SFWA Handbook, 2nd Ed., July 1995 (reprint).
“Interview: Mary Rosenblum,” Science Fiction Chronicle, September 1995.
“Interview: David Wolverton,” Next Phase, April 1996, Vol. 5, No. 1 (reprint).
Book Review of The Wisdom of the African World, Small Press, Spring 1996.

HONORS

    * First Amendment Award, by Society for Professional Journalists, Arizona chapter, The Copper Era, 2003.
    * First Place, Best News Story, The Copper Era weekly, 2003.
    * First Place, Departmental News Excellence, Eastern Arizona Courier weekly, 2003.
    * First Place, Editorial Page Excellence, Courier, 2003.
    * First Place, Best Local Column, Semi-Weekly Division, Courier, Wick Communications, 2003.
    * First Place, News Writing Excellence, Era, 2002.
    * First Place, General Excellence, Era, 2002.
    * First Place, Best Sustained News Coverage or Series, Courier, 2001.
    * First Place, Community Service/Journalistic Achievement, Era, 2001.
    * Third Place, Year’s Best News Story, White Mountain Independent, 1998.
    * Second Place, Editor, Special Publication, Independent, 1998.
    * Outstanding Journalism plaque from Show Low Regional Chamber of Commerce, 1997-98.
    * Community Service plaque from VFW Post 2364, Pinetop-Lakeside, 1998.
    * Certificate of Appreciation, Pinetop-Lakeside Chamber of Commerce, 1998-99.
    * Chair, 1996 Philip K. Dick Award Jury (for Year’s Best paperback Science Fiction novel).
    * Lecturer (paid), Rogue Valley Writers Conference, Southern Oregon State College, 1994
    * Lecturer (paid), Medford Teen Library Sixth Anniversary Program, October 1994.
    * Sigma Delta Chi professional journalistic society member, Roll #51679.
    * Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest, 1988.
    * Honorable Mention, L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest, 1987.
    * Board Member, Anasazi Education Outreach program (Colorado), NEH-funded, 1983-1984
    * First World Conference on Cultural Parks, NPS-UNESCO sponsors, Technical Aide, 1984.
    * Lecturer (paid), Insights Into The Ancient Ones, Colorado Humanities Program, 1979.
    * Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships Competition, 1975.
    * UC Riverside Research Grant, Dept. of Anthropology, in support of M.A. field work, 1975.
    * UC Riverside President’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 1973.
    * M.A. in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1976.
    * B.Sc. in Communications, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1971.