The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois

Author:Gardner Dozois
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Fiction
ISBN: 9781250003546
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-07-02T14:00:00+00:00

A Response from EST17

TOM PURDOM

Here’s an ingenious First Contact scenario, told mostly from the perspective of the aliens being contacted, as two competing probes from Earth enter into a complicated and ultimately dangerously confrontational series of negotiations with the natives as to whom they’re going to be in contact with, negotiations which may eventually determine the future survival of both the alien civilization and of Terran civilization itself.

Tom Purdom made his first sale in 1957, to Fantastic Universe, and has subsequently sold to Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Star, and most of the major magazines and anthologies. In recent years, he’s become a frequent contributor to Asimov’s Science Fiction. He is the author of one of the most unfairly forgotten SF novels of the 1960s, the powerful and still-timely Reduction in Arms, about the difficulties of disarmament in the face of the mad proliferation of nuclear weapons, as well as such novels as I Want the Stars, The Tree Lord of Imeten, Five Against Arlane, and The Barons of Behavior. Purdom lives in Philadelphia, where he reviews classical music concerts for a local newspaper. Many of his short works have recently been made available at the Barnes & Noble Nookstore, Amazon’s Kindle store, and through Fictionwise.

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