A big hello and welcome to all readers! Today Literary Flairs is immensely excited to feature Dr. Paul Levinson, who is a multi award winning author of popular science fiction and non fiction novels and a well known reviewer in addition to being a renowned Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. Dr. Levinson's acclaimed novel titled The Plot to Save Socrates is the first of a trilogy (a gripping time travel and historical fiction genre) of the mysterious and action packed Sierra Waters series. We'll learn more about Dr. Levinson and his multiple accomplishments in the fascinating world of storytelling and creative writing in today's special spotlight.
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About the author : 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 accomplishments : His stories and novels have been nominated for Hugo, Nebula,
Sturgeon, Edgar, Prometheus, and Audie Awards. His nonfiction books, including The
Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone
(2004), and New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012), have been
translated into twelve languages. 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. He 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.
Watch author Levinson's engaging interview on Youtube : Behind the Plot to Save Socrates
Book Spotlight :The Plot to Save Socrates ( Sierra Waters Book 1)
Book : The Plot to Save Socrates
Author : Paul Levinson
Genre : Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction
34 reviews so far and counting at Amazon Kindle stores, mostly 5 stars, read here
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Book Summary
In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics, is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max.
The trail leads her to time machines in gentlemen's clubs in London and in New York, and into the past--and to a time traveler from the future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades to William Henry Appleton, the great nineteenth-century American publisher, to Hypatia and Socrates himself appear.
Chapter Excerpt
[Athens, 2042 AD]
She ripped the paper in half, then ripped the halves, then ripped what was
left, again, into bits and pieces of history that could have been....
Sierra Waters had read once that, years ago, it was thought that men made
love for the thrill, while women made love for the sense of connection it gave
them. Sierra had always done everything for the thrill. She had no sense of
connection, except to her work. Which should have made her an ideal person for
this job.
Still ... an ideal person would have followed the plan. It was written on
the only substance which could survive decades, maybe longer, without
batteries, which required only the light of the sun to be read, or the moon on
a good night, or a flickering flame when there was no moon. Paper. A marvelous
invention. Thin and durable. And she had just torn it into pieces, opened her
palm, and given it to the wind to disperse in irreparable directions.
1 comment:
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