Light On Light Through

Whoa ... a special Sunday bonus Episode of Light On Light Through... a brief review of the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale... or, as I like to call it, The Man Without the Golden Pun... The gist is, I loved the movie, but... Enjoy... Paul Added December 1, 2008:  See also: It's Not HBO - It's A Quantum of Solace web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006podcast: paullev.libsyn.com live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News 

Time for something a bit different ...Episode 8 of Light On Light Through -- Time Travel in Fiction and Fact ...  a jam-packed 30-minute show ... with a special clip from my Edgar-nominated radioplay, The Chronology Protection Case a special give-away to the first 25 people who send e-mail or voice-mail  - I'll reply with an MP3 of the full 38-minute radioplay of The Chronology Protection Case, performed by Mark Shanahan and a professional cast (but you have to answer a question I ask on the podcast) e-mail about time travel from Sylvia Engdahl, who wrote Enchantress from the Stars and other great novels Shaun Farrell makes the call on Daylight Savings Time a tribute to Jack Williamson, 1908-2006 other goodies, profundities, absurdities and much more... Enjoy! Paul web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: Paul Levinson's Infinite Regressvideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006   my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Dai

a jumbo episode of =Light On Light Through=   --thumbail discussions of Battlestar Galactica, Dexter, Heroes, Kidnapped, Lost, The Nine, Six Degrees, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Wire ... the winners and losers and hangers-on ...  all of that packed into 23 minutes... (no spoilers from this year) ... also including e-mail from Idris Elba (aka Stringer Bell), science fiction critic Gary Wolfe reveals the truth about podcasting, voice-mail from MikeThinks, and more... Enjoy! Paul web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006podcast: paullev.libsyn.com live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News   

A special Election-Day Episode of Light On Light Through - Episode 6 - Elective Media, in which I discuss the shift in the way we get our news and election coverage - from network news which attracted 50 million Americans in the 1980s and is lucky to reach 25 million now, to cable news which is growing but still attracts only 5 million Americans, to ... well, you're no doubt part of this revolution, which includes YouTube, blogs, and podcasts... Find out why I think these developments in media are making for good days in democracy, whatever the results of today's election... Enjoy! Paul web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006podcast: paullev.libsyn.com live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com The Plot to Save Socrates - my latest novel"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News   

I say it's the best show about the real world on television - but is The Wire as good as it was without Stringer Bell?  In Episode 5 of Light On Light Through I probe the powerful appeal of bad guys with redeeming qualities, and look at the contribution of Idris Elba aka Stringer Bell to The Wire.  "The Wire Without Stringer" is a little longer than most episodes of this podcast, because it has a special treat near the end.... .... a minute or so of Idris' great new hip-hop soul recording, Johnny Was... move over, Bob Marley Enjoy! Paul web: http://paullev.com/ blog: https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/ videoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006 my latest novel: The Plot to Save Socrates "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly "Da Vinci-esque thriller" - New York Daily News and Brian Charles Clarke says The Plot to Save Socrates "resonates with the current political climate . . . heroine Sierra Waters is sexy as hell . . . there's a bite to Levinson's wit" -- in Curled Up With A Good Book more about Th

A special bonus episode of Light On Light Through - which I guess would make this Episode 4 - in which I lament the loss of sunlight at the end of the day under the cruel Standard Time regime that has just befallen us.... Hey, when you're driving home in the dark tomorrow, maybe listening to this will put a little smile on your face... Enjoy.... Paul my books ... my blog ... my videos The Plot to Save Socrates,  my best-known novel "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly "Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News     

For centuries, the public has relied upon encyclopedias - written by carefully chosen experts, vetted by a few venerable editors.... For the past few years, Wikipedia has tried something a little different - an encyclopedia written by ... everyone ... the human species ... in principle, everyone on this planet who can read and write... I'm betting it will take its place among the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Encyclopedia Galactica... various details about me and what I do are on the following pages: web: www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006podcast: http://paullev.libsyn.com live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): www.knx1070.com and my novel... The Plot to Save Socrates"challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly"Da Vinci-esque thriller - New York Daily News see also my two blog posts on this topic: The Wiki Way and The Forces of Light vs. Darkness on Wikipedia

... well, certainly not in the ratings - at least as far as Kidnapped goes - but these two shows have brought the intelligence and intensity and courage of dramas on television to new heights... in Kidnapped & Battlestar Galactica - Leading the TV pack at quartertime, I explain ... and why these and other shows may be ushering in the first platinum age of television.... this is the second episode of my podcast, Light On Light Through - a more-or-less weekly, five-minute-or-so commentary on some technological, media, popular culture, science fiction issue that strikes my interest (and I hope yours too) ... various details about me and what I do are on the following web pages: web: http://www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: http://www.myspace.com/twiceuponarhymevideoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006live on radio (Sundays, 7:15am, Pacific time): http://www.knx1070.com and my latest novel -- =The Plot to Save Socrates= "challenging fun" - Entertainment Weekly Enjoy...

on the road to teleportation ... once upon a time, to talk to a person - to communicate - meant you had to be in that person's physical presence ... writing and subsequent media changed all of that... Prius and the Reunion of Talking and Walking explores how new cars with Bluetooth technology are enabling us to move fast again and communicate anyplace at the same time... this is the premier episode of my podcast, Light On Light Through - a weekly, five-minute-or-so commentary on some technological, media, popular culture, science fiction issue that strikes my interest (and I hope yours too) ... ranging from Wikipedia to Battlestar Galactica to the First Amendment...   Like science fiction? Jump into my short story, The Other Car, in which a Prius is a bridge to an alternate reality        more about me and what I do are on the following web pages: web: http://www.sff.net/people/paullevinsonblog: http://PaulLevinson.netvideoclips: http://www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006 my latest novel: The Plot to Save So