Paul Levinson
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url
http://www.goodreads.com/paullev
born
March 25, 1947
gender
male
place of birth
New York City
website
genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Nonfiction, Mystery & Thrillers
influences
Isaac Asimov, Marshall McLuhan, Karl Popper, Thomas Jefferson, I. F. Stone
member since
November 2007
about this author
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 eight 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.
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The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.23 — 40 ratings — published 2005 4 editions |
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The Silk Code by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.36 — 28 ratings — published 1999 2 editions |
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The Consciousness Plague by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.28 — 18 ratings — published 2002 4 editions |
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Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 1999 2 editions |
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The Pixel Eye by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 2003 2 editions |
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The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1997 2 editions |
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Borrowed Tides by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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The Chronology Protection Case by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2005 |
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Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything! by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2004 |
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New New Media by Paul Levinson (Goodreads author) avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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date: November 15, 2009 12:00PM location: Bookstores, The United States description: Exciting new cozy mystery being released by a new, traditional publishing company. | |||
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"New New Media published by Penguin/Pearson/Allyn & Bacon September 3, 2009"
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Paul added Red Moon to the book list 2009 Summer Reading List
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said "maybe" to attending the event: PROMO DAY.
date: May 09, 2009 07:00AM location: http://jolinsdell.tripod.com/promoday, The United States description: PROMO DAY is a FREE online international event for people in the writing industry. A whole day dedicated to promoting, networking and learning. Calling ALL avid readers, writers, authors (published and non), publishers, editors, graphic designers, virtual assistants etc… Anyone with an interest in books and writing, from anywhere in the world. | |||
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Lizzy's
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"It all starts when Sierra Waters, a classics grad student, is shown an enigmatic Socratic dialouge by her professor, Thomas O'Leary. In the dialouge, a mysterious man named Andros tries to convince Socrates to escape with him into the future, via tim...more " | |||
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"THE PLOT TO SAVE SOCRATES There’s an old saying, “If you love Greek history and you’re fascinated by time travel, you’ll love Paul Levinson’s The Plot To Save Socrates. If you’re reading this in 2009, you’ll likely disagree t...more " | |||
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Paul made a comment in the group Dune Fanatics—Dune as Source of Philosophy topic:
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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
Paul, The Plot to Save Socrates just arrived in the mail. I'm looking forward to sharing it with my son.
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
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.
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 :)
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