Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009/2013), have been translated into twelve languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (1999, reissued as ebook 2012), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002, 2013), The Pixel Eye (2003, 2014), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006, 2012 ), Unburning Alexandria (2013), and Chronica (2014). He appears on numerous TV and radio programs. He reviews television on his InfiniteRegress.tv blog, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009. His 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued in 2010, and his new album, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, was released in 2020.