Tom Purdom
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.
Tom Purdom
- Name
- Tom Purdom
- Born
- 19 April 1936
- Birthplace
- New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
- Died
- 14 January 2024
- Occupation
- * Novelist
- Spouse
- Sara Wescoat Purdom
- Full name
- Thomas Edward Purdom.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Fields
- science fiction.
- Languages
- English.
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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.
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His works have been translated into German, Chinese, Burmese, Russian, and Czech. He lived in Philadelphia. Purdom died on January 14, 2024, at the age of 87.
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• Name — Tom Purdom • Born — 19 April 1936 • Birthplace — New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. • Died — 14 January 2024 • Occupation — * Novelist • short story writer • essayist • Genre — Science fiction • Spouse — Sara Wescoat Purdom • Website — http: www.philart.net/tompurdom/
Novels
Novels
* * • Five Against Arlane (1967) • Reduction in Arms (1967) • The Barons of Behavior (1972)
Short fiction
Short fiction
• Collections • Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons (2014) * • Stories
Essays and reviews
Essays and reviews
• Various on Broad Street Review since 2011 • Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected — |Notes • Sordman the Protector — 1960 — Novelette • Courting Time — 1966 — Novelette • Fossil games — 1999 • Warlord — 2013 — Novelette • A stranger from a foreign ship — 2013 • Bogdavi's dream — 2014 — Novelette • Day job — 2015 — Novelette
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Critical studies and reviews of Purdom's work
• Romance on four worlds * ——————— • Notes
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