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Sun, 3 October 2010
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 80, in which you will hear the complete, uncut radio play of "The Chronology Protection Case," recorded before a live audience at the Mark Goodson Theater in the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City in September 2002. The radio play is based on my novelette, "The Chronology Protection Case," published in Analog Magazine 1995. The novelette was nominated for the Nebula Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America, was reprinted six times, and led to two other novelettes with the lead character - Dr. Phil D'Amato - and three novels, including The Silk Code, which won the Locus Award for Best First Novel of 1999. Jay Kensinger released a short film based on the novelette in 2002. Mark Shanahan wrote the radio play, with Paul Levinson (me) and Jay Kensinger. The script performed at the Museum of Television and Radio was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Radio Play by the Mystery Writers of America. Mark later recorded a studio production of the play, which was released by Audible.com.
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~playbill~ The Chronology Protection Case
based on the story by Paul Levinson radio adaption by Mark Shanahan, with Paul Levinson & Jay Kensinger directed by Elysa Martin music performed by Bob Feldman host Joel Farrell sound designer Chip Cristarella
Cast Mark Shanahan as Dr. Phil D'Amato Deborah Thomas as Lauren Goldring and Deborah Ted Deasy as Jack Donovan and Richard Hays Jeff Peters as Ed Monti, Sam Abrahmson, Nurse Johnson, and Officer Gina Daniels as Maisie, Janny Murphy, and Julie Fenwich
A Stage Shadows Production casting by Terry Ashe-Croft
performed at the Mark Goodson Theater at the Museum of Television and Radio, NYC September 27, 2002
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Fri, 18 September 2009
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 66: Robert J. Sawyer Talks About FlashForward .... With less than a week to go until the premiere of FlashForward on ABC Television on September 24, 2009, 8 pm Eastern time - based on Rob Sawyer's novel of the very same name - I was delighted to catch Rob on the phone in Toronto for this sage, penetrating interview in which Rob reveals what it feels like to be on the verge of having his novel seen on screens around the world in this ABC series. Rob takes us through the steps of moving from novel to screen, his admiration for the stellar cast, his clear vision of possible future paths for his FlashForward novel universe, at a time when everyone will be coming to know the slightly different story in the television series, and much more. Whether you're a writer with dreams of seeing of your words on the screen, or a fan of great science fiction is this new golden age of television, this is the interview you'll always remember.
home page: http://paullevinson.info more podcasts: http://Levinsonnewsclips.com videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006 published on 3 September 2009: New New Media my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates and Brian Charles Clarke says The Plot to Save Socrates "resonates with the current political climate . . . Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" -- in Curled Up With A Good Book
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Sat, 9 May 2009
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 62: Star Trek: Reborn, Reset, Resplendent
... in which I explain how the new May 2009 Star Trek movie succeeded in delighting lifelong fans (including me) as well as reinventing the Star Trek universe from the beginning (which I also immensely enjoyed) ... hint: think time-travel ...Helpful links:
home page: http://paullevinson.info my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates and Brian Charles Clarke says The Plot to Save Socrates "resonates with the current political climate . . . heroine Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" -- in Curled Up With A Good Book
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Sun, 12 April 2009
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 61: Author and Critic: Perilous Symbiosis ... in which I examine the love/hate mutually catalytic relationship of authors (or creators) and critics. I look especially at the dangers and benefits to aspiring authors of writing critical reviews of works by other authors...Helpful links:
home page: http://paullevinson.info my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates and Brian Charles Clarke says The Plot to Save Socrates "resonates with the current political climate . . . heroine Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" -- in Curled Up With A Good Book
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Thu, 12 March 2009
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 60: Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Frank Herbert's Dune Trilogies as Sources of Philosophy ... in which I discuss how the fate of Hari Seldon's "psychohistorical" equations in the Foundation trilogy and Paul Muad'dib's ability to see the future in the Dune novels gives us vivid, compelling answers to the perennial philosophic problem of what can we know of the future ... (Plot points mentioned only for the first two books in each trilogy.) Helpful links:
home page: http://paullevinson.info my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates and Brian Charles Clarke says The Plot to Save Socrates "resonates with the current political climate . . . heroine Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" -- in Curled Up With A Good Book
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Sun, 17 February 2008
Welcome to Episode 52 of Light On Light Through ... "Science Fiction in the New Golden Age of Television" ... It started in the mid-late 1990s with HBO's original series, especially "The Sopranos" in 1999. This revolution in television - frank, gritty, real, intellectually sophisticated - soon spread to other cable and old-fashioned network television. In the past few years, science fiction has taken a leading role. In this podcast - based on a lecture I gave to the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society on 25 January 2008 (at the invitation of Lee Stein and Suzanne Rosin) - I look at the contributions of five science fiction series to this new golden age of television ... Lost, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Journeyman, Battlestar Galactica, and Heroes... Plus flashes ... mostly about the continuing Obama revolution, and a little about John "Palpatine" McCain... Helpful links:
home page: http://paullevinson.info my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates and Brian Charles Clarke says The Plot to Save Socrates "resonates with the current political climate . . . heroine Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" -- in Curled Up With A Good Book
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Sun, 2 December 2007
Welcome to Light On Light Through Episode 50 - my interview with Dr. Stanley Schmidt, long-time editor of Analog Magazine of Science Fiction and Fact, the leading science fiction magazine in the universe, as far as we know ... Stan talks candidly about what he looks for in a story submitted for publication ... how quickly he knows that a story works ... what he sees in the futures of science fiction, Analog, and his own work in the field ... Analog published 10 of my stories in the 1990s, and helped establish me as a science fiction writer. This interview was not only a real pleasure for me to conduct, but I suspect will be a source for years to come of invaluable information and insight for anyone who aspires to being a published short-fiction science fiction writer ... Here's a list of all my science ficiton stories (and two fact articles) published in Analog to date (updated November 2011): "Ian, Isaac, and John" (novelette) November 2011 ... "Ian's Ions and Eons" (novelette) April 2011 ... "Unburning Alexandria" (novelette) November 2008 ... "The Man Who Brought Down The New York Times" (short short) December 2000 ... "The Suspended Fourth" (short story) March 2000 ... "Late Lessons," (cover story, novelette) October 1999 ... "Little Differences" (novelette) June 1998 ... "The Book on the Book" (fact) June 1998 ... "The Orchard" (novelette) February 1998 ... "Advantage, Bellarmine," January 1998 ... "Loose Ends" (novella) May 1997... "Learning Unbound: OnLine Education and the Mind's Academy" (fact) March 1997 ... "The Mendelian Lamp Case" (novelette) April 1997 ... "The Copyright Notice Case" (novelette) April 1996 ... "The Chronology Protection Case" (novelette) September 1995 ... "The Way of Flesh" (short short) February 1995
 home page: http://paullevinson.info thoughts, questions, or comments about this interview? try here my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates and Brian Charles Clarke says The Plot to Save Socrates "resonates with the current political climate . . . heroine Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" -- in Curled Up With A Good Book Read the first chapter of The Plot to Save Socrates .... FREE! |
Thu, 6 September 2007
File this under a novel I'm almost positive you never heard of. But I thought I'd mention it here because, who knows, maybe years from now, someone will read this and look further into one of the best unknown science fiction mystery novels I've ever read. Redshift Rendezvous by John Stith was published in 1990. It wasn't his first or his last novel. But it's his best. It tells the story of a murder and subsequent investigation on an interstellar space ship. Nothing so extraordinary about that. But the ship is traveling faster than the speed of light, and Stith posits that the speed of light inside the ship is therefore reduced to about ten meters per second, which would be about 30 million times slower than its usual speed - or the speed we're used to. The murder investigation must take this incredibly slow-moving situation into account... Can eyewitness testimony be trusted? What is evidence when light bouncing off objects moves so slowly... Most science fiction/mystery hybrids take place in worlds with alien names, or space ships, in environments which are otherwise pretty much like ours. Redshift Rendezvous makes the speed of light and its bending an indispensable part of the puzzle, and thus is one of the truest - and most satisfying - hybrids ever written. If you like your science fiction rigorous, and your rigor mortis mysteries exotic, grab this novel if you can.
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Sun, 26 August 2007
What follows are my four cardinal rules for making it as a writer. Never any guarantees - but if you follow these rules, you'll be giving yourself the best possible chance:
Well, you get the picture. I hope this helps... More of my advice to writers: Fiction Writers Group ... Pure Southern Genteel ... Pillow Talk interview .... Book Pleasures ... Smoking Poet ... emonome ... Listen also to special podcast - Authors and Critics: Perilous Symbiosis          
my Ask Lev podcast: 2-5 mins of advice about writing  Category:Science Fiction
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Sun, 19 August 2007
It's by Dave Michaels.
And you never heard of him, right? He published a novel, in the year 2000, entitled Red Moon (not to be confused with Michael Cassutt's novel of same name published around the same time). Cassutt's novel is good. Dave Michael's is among the best 3 or 4 novels I've ever read, period. The background of the novel: I've always been fascinated by the collapse of the Soviet space program in the 1960s. The Soviets jump-started the space age with Sputnik in 1957. They got the first animals and then the first people up into space. They sent spacecraft - with no people - to the moon. They were on the verge of getting people there. They inspired John F. Kennedy - in the names of both wonder and security - to put the U.S. on a course to send a man to the moon and safely return him by the end of the decade. Which we did. But the Soviets never made it. Their move into space hit a mysterious stone wall. And the lack of continuing competition between them and us was likely the most significant factor in the fizzling of our own efforts in space. Forty years later, and we've yet to set foot on the moon again, or anywhere beyond our space station. What happened to the Soviet space program? The death of its mastermind, Sergei Korolev in 1966, no doubt was a grievous blow. But ... I don't know ... there were a lot of other talented people working in the Soviet space program. The death of one man, however important, should not have led to its demise... Red Moon provides some breath-taking science fiction answers. How I found out about the novel: It was at a reading I was giving at a science fiction convention - Balticon (in Baltimore) in the Spring of 2001. David S. Michaels came up to me after the reading, with a copy of my novel, The Silk Code, for me to autograph. Then he pulled a 600-page book out of his backpack, and asked me to please accept it, as a present. I wasn't sure what to say. First, travelling back from Baltimore to New York by train (I love driving, but trains even more) is no fun with a heavy bag of books, which I already had. Second, as a writer, I find I don't read as much fiction as I would like - if I'm writing a novel, which I usually am, reading someone else's can throw me off course. But ... There was something about Dave, and I was already keenly interested in the subject, so I thanked him for the present and added it to my bag (it was filled with non-fiction books, by the way, which I do read when I can). It was well into June before I had a chance to open Red Moon. And when I did - well, I couldn't put it down. It might as well have been a new Foundation or Harry Potter novel. The subject, the plot, the characters, the writing was brilliant. I contacted Dave right away, told him how much I enjoyed the novel. It had been published by a very small press. I told him I would try to get it to the attention of a bigger publisher. Which I did... But all of this was right before September 11, 2001, when lots of things changed in the publishing world (most of which is headquartered in New York City). And in the aftermath, at least the publishers that I had been in contact with were doing other things, cutting back their acquisition lists. And so, nothing more happened with Dave Michaels' Red Moon. I listed it as my #1 favorite first science fiction novel on a list I started on Amazon. (It's a pretty exclusive list. I'd highly recommend Bob Katz's Edward Maret, which is #2 on the list. Wen Spencer's Alien Taste and Larry Ketchersid's Dusk Before Dawn are there, too.) Amazon now has an "out of print" sign on Dave Michaels' Red Moon's page. (I also have a reader review of the novel there.) Now that I'm thinking about the book again, I'm gonna do what I can to help get it published - hopefully better - again. In the meantime, if you're at all interested in the space race, what could have been, why what happened - and didn't happen - happened, the extraordinary human struggle to reach the cosmos, give yourself a treat, and see if you can score a second-hand copy of this novel somewhere. Trust me - you'll be caught up in an adventure, in an intrigue of alternate and real history, that you'll never forget.
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Wed, 8 August 2007
Sarah Beth Durst has written a delightful fantasy novel - Into the Wild - which details the adventures of fairytale characters ... who have escaped the fairytale. I'll post a proper review, soon ... but, in the meantine, I wanted to say a little about "meta-fiction," in general... What is "meta-fiction"? Well, it's fiction in which the story is in some sense about the very telling of the story. You could have characters escaping from one story into another - as in Durst's novel - or discovery of a novel within a novel that tells the story of the first novel ... There's something intellectually delicious about this. Indeed, any time there is any action around the boundaries of stories - whether from characters leaving stories (also seen in I guess my own novel, The Plot to Save Socrates, is a little meta-valent ... Certainly since Sierra Waters sent me that letter...
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Sat, 4 August 2007
I was not happy when I came across a critic's snooty review of Borrowed Tides a few years ago, which concluded that it was my worst novel. I moaned about this to a friend, who helpfully remarked that, hey, some novel that you wrote has to be your worst - they can't all be your best - so why be concerned about it? I understand the logic, but still... Borrowed Tides is about the first starship to Alpha Centauri, that leaves our solar system in the 2020s - with only enough fuel for a one-way trip. That's not so bad as a plot device, is it? The captain is a philosopher, his second is an expert in Native American mythology (which plays a role in the story), there's a passionate woman with great taste in rock 'n' roll, and a Russian, and a Japanese gardener - what's wrong with that? True, I do have the ship turning at pretty steep angles travelling at half speed of light - which violates what we know about bodies in motion here on Earth - but deep space and half-speed-of-light speed isn't exactly what we have here on Earth either, is it? And it does seem, as the ship rounds Alpha Centauri, that it's starting to roll backwards in time ... So there you have it, Borrowed Tides, my worst novel...
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Thu, 2 August 2007
Dear Readers - I received the following this morning in my e-mail, and, after much consideration, I've decided to post it on all of my blogs, in an effort to be of whatever assistance I can to Sierra ... Dear Dr. Levinson - Pardon this unexpected e-mail, but since you have written about me, and my work, I thought you might be receptive. Truthfully, I'm can't be at all sure that this will even reach you. Setting e-mail to be delivered at a future date is one thing. Setting e-mail to be delivered in the past is, of course, something quite else. First, I do want to sincerely thank you for all the good things you have written about me, and for the good attention you have brought to me from others. This means a lot to me, believe me. I also appreciate the care you have taken in not revealing too much of my story, in too much detail - you seem to understand the dangers of too much leaked information in what I am doing. So, with that in mind, I would ask you, and anyone who reads this, to convey whatever information you might have about the whereabouts and activities of the following people in 2008: Alcibiades, Heron of Alexandria, and Thomas O'Leary. The first two are of course historical figures, and may be and in fact are likely using different names in 2008. Any information about their 2008 activities would be enormously helpful. Thomas O'Leary is of course a much more common name. I am interested in the Thomas O'Leary who is a member of the secretive Millennium Club in New York City, and, also, I believe, teaches as an "adjunct," likely in philosophy or history, in one or two universities in New York. I've have taken the liberty of setting an account for myself on your system - I can be reached at Sierra@LightonLightThrough.com Thank you, again, for everything. Readers - please feel free to re-post and distribute this as far and as wide as you can. PL
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Thu, 2 August 2007
Shaun Farrell recently completed his podiobook of my novel, The Silk Code. Shaun was the 4th Dr. Phil D'Amato ... Who is Phil D'Amato? Well, this seems like a good time to lay out some of his key biographical details... Dr. Phil D'Amato is a fictional forensic detective with the NYPD, who has a penchant for getting involved in strange cases... Here is his story... The First Phil: That would be me - Phil D'Amato's author, and creator. I started telling his story in the summer of 1993, when I came across Stephen Hawking's "Chronology Protection Conjecture". Even if time travel were mathematically possible, Hawking thought that the universe would not let it happen. Because time travel could unravel the whole cause-and-effect moorings of the universe .... Somehow, in my mind, that became a great set-up for a metaphysical murder mystery. Phil investigates the death of scientists whose only link was that they were working together on a time-travel project, now abandoned. The short story - actually, a novelette, "The Chronology Protection Case," at over 7500 words - was published in the September 1995 issue of Analog Magazine. It became an immediate hit, getting nominations for the Nebula and Sturgeon Awards, and being reprinted in what by 2005 would be three books (Supernatural Sleuths, Nebula Awards 32, and The Best Time Travel Stories Of All Time), as well one online magazine. I went on to publish "The Copyright Notice Case" in 1996 (Nebula nominee, and winner of the Homer award) and "The Mendelian Lamp Case" in 1998 (reprinted in Best SF#3, Science Fiction Theater, and The Hard SF Renaissance) - both featuring Phil, both in Analog - and then I turned my attention to getting Phil into the covers of novels... The Silk Code, published in 1999, was my first novel and my first Phil D'Amato novel. It went on to win the Locus Award for Best First Novel of 1999 (a rarity for me - I usually get no further than nominations). The Consciousness Plague followed in 2002 and The Pixel Eye in 2003. (The Silk Code and The Consciousness Plague have also been published in Polish editions. And "The Mendelian Lamp Case" has seen print in But, by then, Phil was already leading a second life... The Second Phil: In February 2002, I returned from a science fiction convention in The Third Phil: walked into my office at Fast forward to June, 2003, Here's how we got there: Mark's radioplay of The Chronology Protection Case was performed live at the Mark, of course, not only wrote the radioplay, but, like Jay, plays Phil! (Something about that Phil - anyone who writes him wants to be him.) Mark also went on to co-produce a studio version of the radioplay, available from Audible. But if you like free, that brings us, ever so smoothly, to ... The Fourth Phil: Who would be Shaun Farrell, who, as I mentioned when I started telling you Phil's life story, just finished a podiobook of The Silk Code. It was #1, by the way, for more than a month over on podiobooks.com - hey, not winning an award, but I and the other Phils will take it.... The Fifth Phil: Ooops - ok, I'm getting ahead of myself here. But the Fifth Phil will be whoever plays him in the first Phil D'Amato feature-length movie, or TV show, neither of which has happened yet.... Meanwhile, here are some other important facts about the Phils that I didn't want to get lost in the above: A - Two Phils (me and Shanahan) are irredeemable New Yorkers; the other two (Jay and Shaun) are Californians. B - I'm writing a new Phil D'Amato novel - but first I have to finish the sequel to The Plot to Save Socrates. C - I got the name Phil D'Amato as follows: I have an old friend on the NYPD whose first name is Phil. I tacked on D'Amato, because Al D'Amato was Senator from D- Mark Shanahan starred in the Stay tuned for more...
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Fri, 27 July 2007
A report in last Friday's Washington Post, by way of a BBC translation of an Iranian editorial entitled "Spying Squirrels," reveals the following - A few weeks ago, 14 squirrels equipped with espionage systems of foreign intelligence services were captured by [Iranian] intelligence forces along the country's borders. These trained squirrels, each of which weighed just over 700 grams, were released on the borders of the country for intelligence and espionage purposes .... Fixing GPS devices, bugging instruments and advanced cameras in the bodies of trained animals like squirrels, mice, hamsters, etc, are among modern methods of collecting intelligence. Holy cow! I'm not really surprised - in fact, flattered - because that's exactly the scenario of my 2003 science fiction novel, The Pixel Eye! (There are reviews etc here.) Now, according to folks in the intelligence community (I never thought I'd be using that phrase... ), the Iranians frequently do this sort of thing - they make up preposterous cases of spying, to keep their people on edge, and to be able to claim victimhood in the world community. I'm going to talk to my agent about whether I can get the Iranians to send me a royalty .... Now, if I hear that they think we're spying on them via chairs in dining clubs that time travel, I'll know they're really on to me... 
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Wed, 25 July 2007
Welcome to this special Episode 39 of Light On Light Through - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The View from New York ... from the moment I left the bookstore a few minutes after midnight on Saturday I knew this was something as special as everyone had anticipated ... kids were sitting in front of the bookstore, delving into their copies (tell that to the myopic New York Times and all the other self-appointed experts who think literacy is waning) ... In this podcast, I give my first reactions to this extraordinary finale to an extraordinary series ... and to sum up those reactions: J. K. Rowling has given the world what the Beatles did in 1960s ... the unique British contribution to entertainment and popular culture ... among the highlights ... the interaction of magical beings in this finale novel ... the radio in the forest ... my favorite line ... and much more... Plus flashes ... just one, devoted to the YouTube/CNN Presidential debate this past Monday, which I saw and reckon to be a major breakthrough for democracy and the media... Helpful links:
Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com my short stories: at fictionwise The Silk Code - Locus Award, Best 1st Science Fiction Novel, 1999
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Sun, 24 June 2007
Welcome to Episode 37 of Light On Light Through ---> A Conversation with Robert J. Sawyer ... my good friend for more than a decade ... my predecessor as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America (and I served as his Vice President) ... Rob is winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and more awards, almost as numerous as stars in the universe ... he's Canada's premier science fiction writer ... We talk not only about Rob's novels - including his latest, rollback - but about the true value of science fiction to humanity, a trip to Mars that almost happened in the 1960s, the Pope's Astronomer, and much more ... a no-holds-barred, unedited 20-minute connversation... Plus flashes ... all Sopranos, baby ... I thought the ending was a masterpiece ... shades of The Lady or The Tiger and Hamlet ... advice to the closure-junkies ... Helpful links:
Note added 19 September 2009: Listen also to my new interview with Rob Sawyer about FlashForward!
The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel
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Sun, 13 May 2007
Welcome to Harry Potter and the Refutation of Illiteracy or Episode 34 of Light On Light Through in which we consider how the extraordinary success of J. K. Rowling's novels refutes the view of some academics and critics that television, the Internet, and even texting on cell phones are making the world illiterate... Plus flashes ... devoted entirely to the shabby treatment the Ron Paul for President campaign has been receiving from ABC.com, Pajamas Media, and other media... Helpful links:
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Sun, 18 March 2007
Welcome to The Four Phils... Episode 26 of Light On Light Through ... in which I interview actor and screenwriter Mark Shanahan about how he came to write and star in the Edgar-award nominated radioplay of The Chronology Protection Case based on my novelette of the same name ... my fictional NYPD forensic detective Dr. Phil D'Amato is the hero of this story ... and Mark and I talk about his and other renditions of Phil ... a rare, behind-the-scenes interview about the making of a radioplay... Plus flashes ... update on Josh Wolf, the imprisoned journalist ... my modest proposal for this political season ... and "wiki" makes it into the OED - how about a Wiki-OED?... Helpful links:
Enjoy... Paul web: http://paullevinson.info videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006 Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com my short stories: at fictionwise The Silk Code - Locus Award, Best 1st Science Fiction Novel, 1999 The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel
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Sun, 11 February 2007
Welcome to Episode 21 of Light On Light Through - How To Research Ancient History for Science Fiction ... I gave a talk on this topic to the Science Fiction Society of Northern New Jersey at the Garden State Plaza Borders Bookstore this evening ... but for all the people in the world who couldn't attend, my two secret ingredients are old Encyclopedia Britannicas (1955 or earlier) and new sources on the Web (quadruple corroborated)... Plus flashes ... Hank and Jack Bauer ... MSNBC Countdown Board goes ballistic over my critique of Keith Olbermann (because of his attack on 24) ... Lost's recovering ... and iTunes and the Beatles... And the early-Beatle-like James Harris with a nice home-demo of his song Tonya McCreary... Helpful links:
Enjoy... Paul web: http://paullevinson.info videoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006 Levinson news clips podcast: http://Levinsonnews.podshow.com Ask Lev 2-5 min pieces of advice on writing, succeeding, and tea words and music by Paul Levinson readings, performances, live on radio (Sundays, 7:20am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com The Silk Code - winner Locus Award, Best First Science Fiction, 1999 The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel |
Sat, 18 November 2006
Time for something a bit different ...Episode 8 of Light On Light Through -- Time Travel in Fiction and Fact ... a jam-packed 30-minute show ... with
and much more... Enjoy! Paul web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinson my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates and Brian Charles Clarke says The Plot to Save Socrates "resonates with the current political climate . . . heroine Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" -- in Curled Up With A Good Book |
