Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson’s eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009, 2nd edition 2012), have been the subject of major articles in The New York Times, Wired, and The Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into 10 languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (1999, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006). His short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. Paul Levinson appears on MSNBC, Bloomberg West, The History Channel, Fox News, NPR, and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. His 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was reissued on mini-CD by Big Pink Records in 2009 and on a vinyl repressing by Sound of Salvation/Whiplash Records in December 2010 He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, writes political and media commentary for Mediaite, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Top 10 Academic Twitterers” in 2009. Paul Levinson has a PhD from New York University and is Professor of Communication at Fordham University in New York City.