Controlled Experiment

by Tom Purdom

Overview

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? Controlled Experiment combines science fiction with three of the classic styles of the mystery-- the private eye, the police procedural, and the husband and wife detective team. Can a lifelong romance survive into a world where death is indefinitely postponed?

Length about 30 hardcover book pages The novelette has been a popular form since science fiction magazines first appeared on the stands, but it’s too short for conventional book publishing. Ereaders have opened up a new possibility—novelettes readers can buy as if they were small books you can read in less than an hour.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011848056
Publisher:	Tom Purdom
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	37 KB

About the Author

Tom Purdom has been writing science fiction for over fifty years. His contributions to the science fiction field include novels, short fiction, magazine articles, and an anthology of non-fiction about science by leading SF writers. The editors who have bought his work include science fiction legends like John W. Campbell and Frederik Pohl and currently active editors such as Sheila Williams, Gardner Dozois, and Stanley Schmidt. For the last twenty years, he has mostly been writing short stories and novelettes that have ended up on the contents pages of Asimov’s. Michael Swanwick has called his Asimov’s stories “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.”

website: http://www.philart.net/tompurdom