Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC.  His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), The Consciousness Plague, and The Pixel Eye (all featuring Dr. Phil D’Amato), Borrowed Tides, and The Plot to Save Socrates, Unburning Alexandria, and Chronica (the Sierra Waters time-travel trilogy). His novelette, “The Chronology Protection Case,” was made into a low-budget short film, now on Amazon Prime Video. Levinson’s nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, Realspace, McLuhan in an Age of Social Media, and Fake News in Real Context have been translated into 15 languages. He appears on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, and NPR.  His 1972 album, Twice Upon A Rhyme, was re-issued in Japan and Korea in 2008, and in the U. K. in 2010.  His first new album since 1972, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, was released by Old Bear Records and Light in the Attic Records in 2020.