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Tom Purdom (1936–2023)

One of the occupational hazards of being an historian, particularly of the times half a century passed, is that you meet a lot of the people you are researching. When I was composing a history of the earliest Moon probes, I befriended most of the original scientists and engineers at Space Technology Laboratories. I even…

The coolest book you’ve never heard of…

It’s not often a publishing house gets to print a “first” anything. Journey Press has got a book that was the first for a lot of things. In 1964, Ace Books published I Want the Stars, the first novel by a young science fiction author named Tom Purdom. It was about as humble a beginning…
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