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Books in Order: 12 titles

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  • The Man Who Wouldn't Sign Up

    Henry Westing lives life on his own terms, steadfastly refusing to join any group or organization despite endless efforts by others to get him to...

  • Madame Pompadour's Blade

  • I Want the Stars

    THEY WANTED THE STARS...Fleeing a utopian Earth, searching for meaning, Jenorden and his friends take to the stars to save a helpless race from merciless telepathic aliens.But when travelers from another galaxy appear, offering to answer any question...

  • Sordman the Protector

    He was the most powerful man in the world. He could make anybody do anything -- and yet he was the slave of a mad criminal's mind!...

  • Romance on Four Worlds

    The Moon. Phobos. The Kuiper Belt. A giant globe-circling habitat on Mercury. Joseph Louis Baske roams the Solar System in the same way the great 18th century adventurer, Giacomo Casanova, roamed across Europe--and gets in trouble for the same reason...

  • The Green Beret

    Experience the intensity of military action and adventure in Thomas Edward Purdom's The Green Beret. This classic work plunges readers into the world of soldiers facing extraordinary challenges. A gripping tale of war, duty, and courage, the book exp...

  • Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons

    "Very simply, Tom Purdom IS science fiction. His ever-inventive stories are cut from the cloth of it and sewn with the skill of a master." --Gregory Frost

    "Tom Purdom made his first professional sale all the way back in 1957. It's hard to think...

  • Muskets, Swords, and Dragons

    MUSKETS, SWORDS, AND DRAGONS: Three eighteenth century historical fantasies. Fantasy writers have tended to neglect the eighteenth century. This entertaining little mini-collection romps through the age of wigged courtiers and parade ground armies wi...

  • Bank Run

    Science fiction novella. First published Asimov's Science Fiction magazine Oct-Nov 2005. Anthologized Science Fiction, the Best of the Year- 2006 Edition, Rich Horton, ed.,Prime Books 2006. Translated into Russian ESLI magazine, Moscow, May 06.On a w...



  • Controlled Experiment

    Science Fiction novelette, first published Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2009. Translated into Russian for Russian SF magazine ESLI, 2010.What do you do with criminals sentenced to life without parole when lifespans may last hundreds of years? Contr...

  • The Mists of Time

    Time travel novelette. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine June 2007 Anthologized in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed., St. Martin's Griffin, 2008.Two time travelers with conflictin...

  • The warriors

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Tom Purdom has published 12 books.

Tom Purdom does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Man Who Wouldn't Sign Up, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Tom Purdom, The warriors, was published in December 2009.

No. Tom Purdom does not write books in series.