"Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period."

-- Michael Swanwick

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“Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.”

Source : "A Lifetime of Achievement, but James Earl Jones Isn't Done". Interview with Susan Wloszczyna, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2009.
“Theres a place in my heart for every team I played on.”
“I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.”
“And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Republicans, although not necessarily all in the same proportions - have a much stronger sense of the American government and American law having responsibility to Americans specifically rather than to people around the world. So the polarization is up versus down, not really right versus left.”

Source : "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.
“I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.”
“I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When you serve others, when you make somebody elseâ€™s life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but youâ€™re being blessed.”

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