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Paul Levinson, PhD, is an author, professor, and media commentator. His first novel, The Silk Code, won the Locus Award for best first science fiction novel of 1999. Entertainment Weekly called his current novel, The Plot to Save Socrates, “challenging fun”. His nine nonfiction books have been translated in a dozen languages around the world, and have been reviewed in The New York Times, Wired, and major newspapers and magazines. Levinson appears on The O’Reilly Factor, CNN, MSNBC, and numerous other television and radio shows. He is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC.


Masterful Mad Men 5.11 tonight had not one but two blockbuster stories, each about one of the two leading women on the show. In both cases, the results were among the most profound and game-changing we've seen not only this season, but in the entire series.

Advertising as a profession could be considered a kind of prostitution - selling your creative soul to your client - but tonight that become... read more »
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The Plot to Save Socrates
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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The Silk Code
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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The Consciousness Plague
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The Pixel Eye
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Borrowed Tides
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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New New Media
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Pamela Hey Paul...Thanks for accepting my friend request.


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L. Thank you, Paul, for adding me as a friend here. We are in several groups together and I look forward to what you have to share with us here.

I wish you a wonderful week!

Sue, author of Life is Like Making Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Kelly Moran Thanks for the nice words, Paul!!!
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Rosemary Paul, The Plot to Save Socrates just arrived in the mail. I'm looking forward to sharing it with my son.


Jeremy I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy


Rosemary Paul, thanks for the invitation. Your books look marvelous. I'm ordering Socrates for my philosopher son (who is very nice about sharing books with me).

I was just in NYC last month and loved it (as always)--bookstores and coffee shops and snow.




Jeremy Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
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Jeremy Hi Paul!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)


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