Biography

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), Chronica (2014), and It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles (2024). His stories and novels have been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Edgar, Sidewise, Prometheus, and Audie Awards. His Nebula-nominated novelette, "The Chronology Protection Case" (1995) was made into an Edgar-Award-nominated radio play, and a low-budget short film, now on Amazon Prime Video. His alternate history story about The Beatles, "It's Real Life" (2022), was made into a radio play (2023), won The Mary Shelley Award, was a finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and was expanded into a novel (2024). His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), New New Media (2009; 2nd edition, 2012), McLuhan in an Age of Social Media (2015), and Fake News in Real Context (2016), have been translated into fifteen languages. He co-edited Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion (2016). He has appeared 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. Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time was released by Old Bear Records and Light In the Attic Records in 2020. Levinson was President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), 1998-2001. He reviews television, and the occasional book and movie, in his InfiniteRegress.TV blog
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He has appeared on major national and international television including CBS, ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, CNBC, The History Channel, and CSPAN; major national radio including NPR, the BBC, and the CBC; local TV and radio around the U.S. and Canada; and is quoted as a media expert in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, U.S.A. Today, by AP and Reuters, and in dozens of newspapers in the U.S., Canada, England, and Australia.

He is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City, and was Chair of the Department, 2002-2008.

"It's Real Life" finalist for Sidewise Award for Alternate History, 2022.

Daddy, this is the best novel I ever read, Phil D'Amato [lead character] is just like you! -- my daughter, then 12 years old, about The Silk Code.