Tom Purdom
Thomas Edward Purdom 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 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.
Novels
- I want the stars
- The Tree Lord of Imeten
- Five Against Arlane
- Reduction in Arms
- The Barons of Behavior
Short fiction
;Stories
| 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 |