Lovers Fighters, Starships Dragons Paperback Tom Purdom

from tdashoff

Tom Purdom has been writing science fiction for over fifty years, but many of today's readers have probably never heard of him, since his early work is out of print and his recent work has only appeared in magazines, primarily Asimov's. This collection contains stories that appeared in Asimov's b...

from fugitive

Excellent collection of old school science fiction. Tom Purdom has been doing this for a few decades, and it shows (in a good way). I felt like I was thirteen again, coming back from the libary with a stack of "Year's Best" or "Nebula and Hugo Award Winning" short story collections. Count me in a...

from Karlstar

This is a quality collection of primarily science fiction short stories. All of the stories were published in Asimov's Science Fiction between 1999 and 2007, so they are timely and good quality. I'm usually a bit suspicious of short story collections, but there wasn't a bad story in the bunch. I ...

from AlMargheim

The only thing I didn't like about this book was how late it arrived from the publisher. Even so, it was well worth the wait. I've been a die hard science fiction reader since my grandfather introduced to me to Robert Heinlein in the 1960s. Somehow, I was completely unaware of who Tom Purdom was ...

from lpmejia

Great collection of stories for those who love the genre, from a less well-known but great writer of short stories. Many of the stories are military-themed, in the tradition of Heinlein, which is not normally my sub-genre of choice, but Purdom's prose is engrossing and engaging. I particularly li...