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Tom Purdom
Purdom in 2008 (photograph by Kyle Cassidy)
Purdom in 2008 (photograph by Kyle Cassidy)
Born(1936-04-19)April 19, 1936
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
DiedJanuary 14, 2024(2024-01-14) (aged 87)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • essayist
GenreScience fiction
SpouseSara Wescoat Purdom
Website
www.philart.net/tompurdom/

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]

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  2. ^ "Tom Purdom (1936–2024)". Locus Magazine. 15 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.

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Olympic javelin thrower (1972). Lakshmi Persaud, 86, Trinidadian writer. Tom Purdom, 87, American writer (Romance on Four Worlds). Munawwar Rana, 71, Indian...

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2024 deaths in the United States

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List of Ace SF double titles

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Charles Purdom

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Charles Benjamin Purdom (15 October 1883 – 8 July 1965) was a British author, drama critic, town planner, and economist. He was one of the pioneers and...

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Empire Star

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with Babel-17, but instead it was published with Tree Lord of Imeten by Tom Purdom. It was finally bundled with Babel-17 in a 2001 reprint. The story revolves...

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Hugo Award for Best Novelette

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was originally published as an Ace Double with Tree Lord of Imeten by Tom Purdom. Of Doubts and Dreams "Prismatica" "Corona" "Empire Star" "Time Considered...

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structure is depicted in the 2000 short story "Romance in Extended Time" by Tom Purdom. The terraforming of Mercury is also portrayed in the 2000 music album...

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Jupiter String Quartet

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List of Ace single volumes

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Ace Science Fiction Specials

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Leiber - You're All Alone Barry N. Malzberg - The Falling Astronauts Tom Purdom - The Barons of Behavior Bob Shaw - Other Days, Other Eyes Theodore Sturgeon...

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Space Soldiers

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Saturn" (Paul J. McAuley) "Soldiers Home" (William Barton) "Legacies" (Tom Purdom) "Moon Duel" (Fritz Leiber) "Savior" (Robert Reed) "Galactic North" (Alastair...

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Teachers, and Their Students. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442272255. Tom Purdom, "Network for New Music Archived 2018-07-28 at the Wayback Machine", Broad...

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List of Ace titles in H series

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List of Ace titles in M series

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