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Paul Levinson(I)

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Paul Levinson, November 2019
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Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), The Plot To Save Socrates (2006), Unburning Alexandria (2013), and Chronica (2014) - the last three of which are also known as the Sierra Waters trilogy, and are historical fiction as well as science fiction. His stories and novels have been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Edgar, Prometheus, and Audie Awards. His Nebula-nominated novelette, "The Chronology Protection Case," was made into a low-budget short film, now on Amazon Prime Video. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012), McLuhan in an Age of Social Media (2015), Fake News in Real Context (2016), and Cyber War and Peace (2017), have been translated into fifteen languages. He co-edited Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion in 2016. He appears on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, NPR, and numerous TV and radio programs. His 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued in 2010. Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time was released by Old Bear Records and Light In the Attic Records in 2020. Levinson was President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, 1998-2001. He reviews television in his InfiniteRegress.TV blog, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009. He began his column "The Other Reel" for Future SF Magazine in June 2020, where he reviews new science fiction movies and TV series in non-English languages.
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The Chronology Protection Case, 2013 re-cut with extended ending.  Produced and directed by Jay Kensinger, from the 1995 novelette by Paul Levinson.
cover of It's Real Life (alternate history fiction about The Beatles)
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cover of The Silk Code, winner of Locus Award for Best First Science Novel of 1999; re-issued as "author's cut" ebook 2012
cover of The Plot to Save Socrates, "author's cut" ebook with extended ending, 2012; hardcover published 2006
December 2022 ... In between the writing, on chilly Cape Cod Bay
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Rufus Sewell interviewed by Paul Levinson about The Man in the High Castle and more
cover to Follow the Leader single (1971 studio demo released Sept 2020)
Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time
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Paul Levinson (2nd from left) working on new album at Old Bear Records, 31 October 2018

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The Chronology Protection Case
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Paul Levinson in Time Machine: Fantastic Voyage - The Evolution of Science Fiction (2002)
Time Machine: Fantastic Voyage - The Evolution of Science Fiction
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How to Survive the End of the World (2013)
How to Survive the End of the World
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  • Self - Author & Social Scientist
Ancient Aliens (2009)
Ancient Aliens
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  • Self - Prof. of Media Studies, Fordham Univ.(as Paul Levinson Ph.D.)

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  • from the 2013 movie with extended ending
    The Chronology Protection Case

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  • The Human Language (1995)
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  • Paradox on 72nd Street

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Behind the Plot to Save Socrates
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Behind the Plot to Save Socrates
Marshall McLuhan, Donald Trump, and the Revenge of Cool
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Marshall McLuhan, Donald Trump, and the Revenge of Cool
How to Survive the End of the World: Collection
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How to Survive the End of the World: Collection
For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty
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For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty

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    His books include Fake News in Real Context (2016), McLuhan in an Age of Social Media (2015), New New Media (2009; 2nd edition 2012) Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium (2004), Realspace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age (2003), Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium (1999), The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution (1997), Learning Cyberspace: Essays on the Evolution of Media and the New Education (1995), Electronic Chronicles: Columns of the Changes in our Time (1992), and Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Age (1988). They have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and 12 other languages. Dr. Levinson is also author of the following science fiction novels: The Silk Code (1999), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), The Plot To Save Socrates (2006), Unburning Alexandria (2013 ), and Chronica (2014).

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    He has appeared on major national and international television including CBS, ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, CNBC, The History Channel, CSPAN, NPR, the BBC, and the CBC; major national radio including AP; local TV and radio around the U.S. and Canada; and is quoted as a media expert in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, U.S.A. Today, by AP and Reuters, and in dozens of newspapers in the U.S., Canada, England, and Australia.

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