Awards

Awards and Honors

  • finalist, “It’s Real Life,” for Sidewise Award for Alternate History (for short form published in 2022)
  • winner, June 2023, “It’s Real Life” alternate history short story and radioplay about The Beatles, Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fiction, given by Media Ecology Association
  • Fall 2017, 2nd Annual Madrid Art Film Festival (Spain), PRE-SELECTED — The Chronology Protection Case short film by Jay Kensinger,  based on the 1995 novelette by Paul Levinson
  • Summer 2017 Movies4Movies Film Festival (Dobbs Ferry, NY) FINALIST — The Chronology Protection Case short film by Jay Kensinger,  based on the 1995 novelette by Paul Levinson
  • Listed as #13  in “Top 100 Web-Savvy Professors, 2012,”
    Best Online Universities
  • Listed as #7 in “Top Ten High (Academic) Fliers on Twitter,”
    The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2009
  • Listed in “Gaming’s 30 Most Influential Outsiders of 2007,”
    Interactive Entertainment Today, November 4, 2007
  • “Thinking Blogger Award,” May 16, 2007
  • Quotation included in First Amendment Calendar, 2007,
    published by the Freedom Forum (appears on May 8 page)
  • winner 2005 Neil Postman Award for Outstanding Public Intellectual, given by the Media Ecology Association
  • 2005 “Audie” Award finalist — The Consciousness Plague audiobook
  • Quotation included in First Amendment Calendar, 2005,
    published by the Freedom Forum (appears on January 9 page)
  • winner 2004 Teacher of the Year, given by Fordham University’s
    Graduate Student Association
  • 2004 Prometheus Award finalist — The Pixel Eye
  • winner 2003 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work:  The Consciousness Plague
  • 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Play nominee — The Chronology Protection Case,  based on the 1995 novelette by Paul Levinson
  • winner 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel: The Silk Code
  • 2000 Barnes & Noble Maiden Voyages Award for Best First Novel runner-up — The Silk Code
  • winner 2000 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship:  Digital McLuhan
  • 1999 Homer Award finalist, novelette –“Little Differences”
  • 1999 Homer Award finalist, novelette –“The Orchard”
  • 1999 Sturgeon Award finalist, short story –“Advantage, Bellarmine”
  • 1999 Homer Award finalist, short story –“Advantage, Bellarmine”
  • 1998 Hugo Award finalist, novella –“Loose Ends”
  • 1998 Sturgeon Award finalist, novella — “Loose Ends”
  • 1998 AnLab Award first runner-up, novella –“Loose Ends”
  • 1998 Homer Award finalist, short story –“A Medal for Harry”
  • 1997 Nebula Award finalist, novella –“Loose Ends”
  • 1997 Nebula Award finalist, novelette –“The Copyright Notice Case”
  • winner 1996 Homer Award, novelette — “The Copyright Notice Case”
  • 1996 Nebula Award finalist, novelette — “The Chronology Protection Case”
  • 1996 Sturgeon Award finalist, novelette –“The Chronology Protection Case”