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Tom Purdom

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TOM PURDOM Tom Purdom is a science fiction writer who became interested in science fiction and space travel in 1950 and sold his first short story in 1957, two months before he turned 21 and a few months before Sputnik went into orbit. He lives in center city Philadelphia where he devotes his leisure time to a round of urban pleasures and entertainments. He grew up in a navy family, living all over the United States, and decided he was perfectly happy staying in one place when he settled in an interesting, livable big city. His bibliography includes five novels but he has mostly written novelettes and short stories for the science fiction magazines. In the last thirty years he has written a string of stories that have mostly appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and anthologies such as Gardner Dozois' best of the year books. Fantastic Books has published two collections of his works. LOVERS AND FIGHTERS, STARSHIPS AND DRAGONS contains tens of his Asimov's stories. ROMANCE ON FOUR WORLDS, A CASANOVA QUARTET contains four romps with a future character based on the 18th Century adventurer Giacomo Casanova. Tom has self-published some of his Asimov's stories through Amazon, along with a memoir called WHEN I WAS WRITING that takes readers inside his mind and tells how he wrote some of his stories and novels. His work outside of science fiction includes magazine articles and thirty years reviewing classical music events for a variety of offbeat Philadelphia publications.
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