TC, booksigning, INFECTRESS, Panama, 1997

About the Author

            Tom Cool is my pen name. My true name is Thomas Clark Cool.

            I am a novelist.

            From 2000 to 2012, I worked as a computer systems engineer for The MITRE Corporation in Miami, Florida.

            From 1979 to 1999, I served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy. During my naval career, I was stationed in Pensacola, Denver, Norfolk, Ciudad de Panamá, Monterey, Pearl Harbor, Alameda, Washington D.C. and Miami. I made four deployments in aircraft carrier battle groups to the Mediterranean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Gulf, with workups in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

            I earned a Master of Science, Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in 1987. My undergraduate studies were at The Pennsylvania State University, where in 1976 I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with honors in the honors program and a dual major in Literature and Creative Writing. I studied under the novelist  S. Leonard Rubinstein and the poet John Haag.

            I am a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My wife, Eva, and I have two children, Raquel and Alex, and two grandsons, Leo and Aston.

            The following are my works to date:

Immolated Novels:

1) SENTINELS, 1970

2) AMBASSADOR of CERES, 1972

Unpublished Novels:

3) THE PHOENIX DREAM, 1983

4) FOREVER TOWARD VICTORY, 1985

5) JUNGLE, PYRAMIDS, WATERFALLS, MUSHROOMS, 1990

Published novels:

6) INFECTRESS, Baen, New York, 1997.

7) SECRET REALMS, Tor, New York, 1998.

8) SOLDIER OF LIGHT (with John de Lancie), Pocket Books, New York, 1999.

On the market:

9) STAR ENVOYS Selection (2017)

10) STAR ENVOYS Rogue Planet (2018)

11) TRANSGENIC (with Dr. Stu Lessin) (2018)

12) TESTIMONY (essays) (2020)

13) STAR ENVOYS Sun Queen (2021)

14) STRANGE ACTORS (2023)

15) THE MAYOR OF ME-VILLE (2023)

Stories:

            * "Universal Emulators," published in Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF), July 1997 and anthologized in David Hartwell's Year's Best SF 3, Harper’s Voyager, New York, 1998.

            * "Frozen," published in the anthology, "Treachery and Treason," editors Laura Anne Gilman and Jennifer Heddler, Roc Books, New York, 2000.

            * "Hornet and Butterfly," with Bruce Sterling, F&SF, May/June 2020.

            I can be contacted through LinkedIn (bit.ly/2UDnehN).