Screen Name: PaulLevinson
Email: PaulLevinson@lightonlightthrough.com
Age: 59
Overview: author (6 science fiction novels, 8 non-fiction books on history and future of media); media commentator (guest on O'Reilly Factor and numerous tv and radio shows); professor of communications; podcaster
Biography: My 1999 novel The Silk Code won the Locus Award for Best FirstScience Fiction Novel. I have since published Borrowed Tides (2001),
The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot
To Save Socrates (2006). My science fiction and mystery short stories
have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards.
My eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997),
Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), and Cellphone (2004),
have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, WIRED,
the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into nine
languages. I appear on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News),
"The CBS Evening News," "Scarborough Country" (MSNBC),
the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS), "Nightline' (ABC) and
numerous national and international TV and radio programs. I'm Professor and Chair of Communication
& Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. My LightOnLightThrough.com podcast, started in October 2006, offers weekly commentary on popular culture, new techs, tv, movies, politics, space travel, the works. My Levinsonnewsclips.com podcast reviews Heroes, Lost, Dexter, Brotherhood, Journeyman, Californication, Tell Me You Love Me, and other good shows.
