Tom Purdom Celebrates 50 Years as a Selling Writer

Tom Purdom's story "The Mists of Time," which will be appearing in the August issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, marks his 50th anniversary as a "selling writer" (his term). His first two stories appeared in August 1957: "A Matter of Privacy" in Science Fiction Quarterly, and "Grieve for a Man" (as by Thomas E. Purdom) in Fantastic Universe.

Purdom is best-known as a music reviewer in Philadelphia, though he has been constantly writing and selling science fiction for the past half-century. He's also written five novels—I Want the Stars, The Treelord of Imeten, Five Against Arlane, The Barons of Behavior, and Reduction in Arms—and edited one anthology, 1969's Adventures in Discovery.