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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 2006 novel, The Plot to Save Socrates, “challenging fun”. Both novels were were reissued as an "author's cut" ebooks in 2012, and Unburning Alexandria, sequel to The Plot to Save Socrates, was published in 2013. His nine nonfiction books on the history and future of media have been translated into 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, NPR, and numerous other television and radio shows. His 1972 album, Twice U...more


There's always at least one insane show on Mad Men, sometimes two, in which all hell breaks loose to the point where you and the characters don't know who's dreaming what, or if it's really a dream at all. This is one of Matthew Weiner's signatures, and you'll recall it was used to excellent effect on The Sopranos in the aftermath of Tony being shot by Uncle Junior. At its best on Mad Men, it... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.72 · 857 ratings · 133 reviews · 35 distinct works · Similar authors
The Plot to Save Socrates
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
The Silk Code
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
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message 18: by Paul

Paul Matthew wrote: "Any chance of a sequel to Plot/Socrates?"

PS - Here's a video clip of me reading from the first chapter of Unburning Alexandria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYkbFV...


message 17: by Paul

Paul Matthew wrote: "Any chance of a sequel to Plot/Socrates?"

As fate would have it, I just finished writing Unburning Alexandria last week. I need to let it simmer, and go over it one or two more times, and then it will be published - figure some time next mont (in April).

-Paul


message 16: by Matthew

Matthew Any chance of a sequel to Plot/Socrates?


message 15: by Paul

Paul ♥iLoveBooks♥ wrote: "Thanks for asking to be my friend! I can't wait to read your book then! :)

~Brook J."


Ha - hope you enjoy, when you get to it! Here's a link to the new Kindle extended edition, if that helps http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AMUDJNS/r...

-Paul


♥iDevourBooks♥ ☆Sonic~Obsessed☆ Thanks for asking to be my friend! I can't wait to read your book then! :)

~Brook J.


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Paul Hey Evelyn - Good to see you here!

-Paul


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Evelyn Johnson Hi Paul! Thanks for being a friend. I had not been here since I joined. I have been missing out. How's NY? That's my hometown, I do not recall telling you that.
I just finished uploading Wild Child by Mike Wells on Kindle for free @Amazon. It is a thriller for YAs . So I shall see, but there is no way Jose that I will read that tonight. Going to call it a night, was up til 7am this morn. Good night.


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Paul Peg wrote: "Thanks for your Goodreads friendship, Paul."

My pleasure!


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Peg Brantley Thanks for your Goodreads friendship, Paul.


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
Life is Like Making Chocolate Chip Cookies


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Kelly Moran Thanks for the nice words, Paul!!!
~K


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Kelly Moran Thanks for the add. Pleasure to meet you!
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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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