Thomas Edward Purdom (born 1936) is an American writer best known for science fiction and nonfiction. His story "Fossil Games" was a nominee for the

Hugo Award for Best Novelette The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novelette award is available for works of fiction of ...

in 2000. He has also done music criticism since 1988. His works have been translated into German, Chinese, Burmese, Russian, and Czech. He lives in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, largest city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the List of United States cities by population, sixth-largest city i ...

Bibliography

Novels

* * * ''Five Against Arlane'' (1967) * ''Reduction in Arms'' (1967) * ''The Barons of Behavior'' (1972)

Short fiction

;Collections *''Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons'' (2014) * ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

Critical studies and reviews of Purdom's work

;''Romance on four worlds'' *

References

External links

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Tom Purdom on the web
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by

Michael Swanwick Michael Swanwick (born 18 November 1950) is an American fantasy and science fiction author who began publishing in the early 1980s. Writing career Swanwick's fiction writing began with short stories, starting in 1980 when he published "Ginungagap ...

1936 births Living people American male novelists American music critics American science fiction writers Asimov's Science Fiction people Writers from Philadelphia Novelists from Pennsylvania American male non-fiction writers {{US-sf-writer-stub