Tom Purdom
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Thomas Edward Purdom (April 19, 1936 – January 14, 2024) was an American writer best known for science fiction and nonfiction. His story "Fossil Games" was a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2000. He has also done music criticism since 1988. His works have been translated into German, Chinese, Burmese, Russian, and Czech. He lived in Philadelphia.[1] Purdom died on January 14, 2024, at the age of 87.[2]
Bibliography
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Novels
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- Five Against Arlane (1967)
- Reduction in Arms (1967)
- The Barons of Behavior (1972)
Short fiction
- Collections
- Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons (2014)
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- Stories[lower-alpha 2]
Essays and reviews
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| Sordman the Protector | 1960 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | Novelette | |
| Courting Time | 1966 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | Novelette | |
| Fossil games | 1999 | |||
| Warlord | 2013 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | Novelette | |
| A stranger from a foreign ship | 2013 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | ||
| Bogdavi's dream | 2014 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | Novelette | |
| Day job | 2015 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | Novelette |
Critical studies and reviews of Purdom's work
- Romance on four worlds
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- ↑ I want the stars was published in a dos-à-dos binding with Bulmer's Demons' world.
- ↑ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
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References
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Further reading
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External links
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- Tom Purdom on the web
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- Tom Purdom, Lover & Fighter by Michael Swanwick
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- 1936 births
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- American male novelists
- American music critics
- American science fiction writers
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- Writers from Philadelphia
- Novelists from Pennsylvania
- American male non-fiction writers