Tom Purdom's latest story, "A Response from EST 17" appeared in the April-May 2011 Asimov's. For the last twenty years, he has been writing short fiction, mostly in the novelette length, which has primarily appeared in Asimov's, as well as Jim Baen's Universe and Gregory Benford's original anthology Microcosms. His first published story appeared in the August 1957 Fantastic Universe, and he followed it with stories in Analog, Galaxy, Amazing, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the sixth volume of Frederik Pohl's original anthology series Star Science Fiction, and other magazines published in the 60's and 70's. His 2000 Hugo nominee "Fossil Games" appeared in David Hartwell's Best SF 5 and Gardner Dozois' Supermen, Tales of the Post-Human Future. His other Best of the Year entries are "Greenplace" in World's Best Science Fiction 1965 (eds. Don Wollheim and Terry Carr); "Canary Land" in Year's Best SF 3 (ed. David Hartwell); "Bank Run" in Science Fiction, The Best of the Year 2006 Edition (ed. Rich Horton); and "The Mists of Time" in Year's Best Science Fiction 25 (Gardner Dozois, ed.). His stories have also been anthologized in International Affairs Through Science Fiction (eds. Martin Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander); Crime Prevention in the Twenty-Third Century (ed. Hans Santesson); This Side of Infinity (ed. Terry Carr); The Future is Now (ed. William F. Nolan); Thor's Hammer (ed. Reginald Bretnor); Future Quest (ed. Roger Elwood); Invaders (eds. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois); Space Soldiers (Dann. Dozois, eds.); Isaac Asimov's Valentines (eds. Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams); and Isaac Asimov's Utopias (eds. Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams). Electronic reprints of many of his stories can be purchased from Fictionwise and the Kindle and Nook epublishing programs. He has published five novels: I Want the Stars (Ace, 1964); The Tree Lord of Imeten (Ace, 1966); Five Against Arlane (Ace 1967); Reduction in Arms (Berkley 1970); and The Barons of Behavior (Ace, 1972). He has edited one anthology, Adventures in Discovery (Doubleday, 1969), a collection of specially commissioned articles about science, by science fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, and Poul Anderson. Jeffrey Ford has dubbed him the most underrated writer in the science fiction genre. Michael Swanwick has called his recent science fiction "an astonishing string of first-rate stories… Purdom's humane take on the future, his willingness to imagine worlds in which people treat each other better than they do now, makes his work distinctive." Outside of science fiction, his output includes magazine articles, essays, science writing, brochures on home decorating, an educational comic book on vocational safety, and twenty years of classical music reviews for various Philadelphia publications, currently The Broad Street Review. He is writing a literary memoir, When I Was Writing, discussing his work on individual stories and novels, which he has been publishing on his website; several chapters have been reprinted in The New York Review of Science Fiction, and more will probably appear there in the future. The memoir is also available on the Nook and the Kindle, for those who prefer the convenience of an ereader. Tom lives in downtown Philadelphia where he devotes himself to a continuous round of pleasures and entertainments.