And back on the Mediacy podcast an eleventh time, on November 9, 2020, talking about the rise of fascism in the United States which Trump’s amassing 70+ million votes demonstrates, even though he lost.
Back on the Mediacy podcast — the tenth time — on November 2, 2020, the night before the U.S. Presidential election, talking with Neil and Carol about just that.
My seventh interview on Bob Mann’s new podcast, Hot Media, October 16, 2020. This time we talk about curbing dangerously false and misleading posts on social media.
My sixth interview on Bob Mann’s new podcast, Hot Media, September 4, 2020. This time we talk about the 2020 US Presidential election.
My fifth interview on Bob Mann’s new podcast, Hot Media, July 17, 2020. This time we talk about podcasting, Black Lives Matter, monologues and humor.
And I was on the Mediacy podcast one more time (until November, 2020), the ninth time, on June 15, 2020, talking about the Black Lives Matter revolution and the pandemic narrative
I was back on the Mediacy podcast once again on June 8, 2020 talking about Black Lives Matter and the media.
I was on the Mediacy podcast again, June 1, 2020, interviewed for 30 mins about the intersection of the pandemic, George Floyd’s murder, and the George Floyd protests across America.
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My fourth interview on Bob Mann’s new podcast, Hot Media, May 15, 2020. This time we talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TV ads and TV entertainment.
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I read from Marilyn and Monet , discussed the paradoxes of time travel, and Dr. Howard Margolin then played my song If I Traveled to the Past (from Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time on Old Bear Records w/vinyl distributed by Light In The Attic Records ) on DESTINIES-The Voice of Science Fiction WUSB Radio 4/24/20 hour-long 37th anniversary special, which featured readings by Peter David, Scott H. Andrews, Patrick Thomas, Athena Kaimen, Paul Levinson; music by Devo Spice, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Paul Levinson; plus DeFlip Side, Phil Merkel, Linda Ede. You can listen to the entire hour here (scroll down; I start reading at 12min17sec; the whole hour is great!) =========================================================
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My third interview on Bob Mann’s new podcast, Hot Media, April 3, 2020. This time we talk about how education continues, isolation is reduced and people can work from home during the COVID-19 crisis.
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My second interview on Bob Mann’s new podcast, Hot Media, February 21, 2020. This time we talk about everything from Russian propaganda on American radio to the renewed power of TV in politics.
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Interview with me in It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine, February 3, 2020, all about my just-released album Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time.
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I was interviewed 52 times on Bob Mann’s Let’s Consider the Source radio show on Sirius/XM Radio from 2007 through 2019 (see here for a list of all shows and topics), including his final show in January 2017. I was thus especially pleased and honored to be his very first guest on his new podcast Hot Media on December 3, 2019. Our topic was the threat Donald Trump poses to freedom of expression. You can listen to Hot Media, episode 101, here.
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I read from my story “The P & A” (published in Amazing Stories, Fall 2019) and sang a song “If I Traveled to the Past” from my forthcoming album, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, to be released in early 2020 on Old Bear Records, at Bakka-Phoenix Books in Toronto on November 20, 2019.
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Philcon concert Nov 9 & schedule Nov 8-10, 2019
Here’s the set list for my 9 November 2019 (Saturday), 5:30-6pm performance at Philcon (in Cherry Hill, NJ, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel), room Plaza VI (Six) – the first public performance of songs from my new science fiction related album, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, produced by Chris Hoisington and to be released by Old Bear Records in early 2020:
“If I Traveled to the Past” (words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio)
“Tau Ceti” (Paul Levinson and John Anealio)
“Samantha” (Paul Levinson)
“Welcome Up” (Paul Levinson)
“Alpha Centauri” (Paul Levinson and Peter Rosenthal)
“I Knew You By Heart” (Paul Levinson and Peter Rosenthal)
“Cloudy Sunday” (Paul Levinson and Linda Kaplan)
The names in parentheses are the songwriters. I sang the songs against backing tracks from my new album Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, to be released by Old Bear Records early in 2020.
backing tracks for If I Traveled to the Past, Tau Ceti, Samantha, Alpha Centauri, Welcome Up, I Knew You By Heart, Picture Postcard World: guitars Jeremy Thompson, drums and keyboard Steven Carlos Padin, harmony and production Chris Hoisington, keyboard Anthony Hoisington, accordion Don Frankel
backing track for Cloudy Sunday: guitar Peter Rosenthal, piano Barbara Krupnick, production Paul Levinson
more about my music: Reverbnation, Facebook, Bandcamp, Spotify (my complete 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, on Bandcamp and Spotify)
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The rest of the convention was lots of fun, too. This my schedule (coming soon: videoclips from these sessions):
Fri 6:00 PM in Executive Suite 623 (1 hour) READINGS: PAUL LEVINSON, APRIL GREY, JAMES CAMBIAS (3723) [Panelists: Paul Levinson (mod), April Grey, James L. Cambias] Note: I’ll be reading from a surprising, brand new story, for the first time in public!
Fri 7:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Promenade (Gaming) (1 hour) AUTOGRAPHS: PAUL LEVINSON, APRIL GREY, JAMES CAMBIAS (3726) [Panelists: Paul Levinson (mod), April Grey, James L. Cambias]
Sat 11:00 AM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS (3590) [Panelists: Jeff Warner (mod), David Walton, Rebecca Robare, Anna Kashina, Paul Levinson, Muriel Hykes] Does “I think, therefore I am” apply to AI? Could it ever? How could we tell if it happens
Sat 3:00 PM in Plaza V (Five) (1 hour) JEWISH SCIENCE FICTION (3530) [Panelists: Simone Zelitch (mod), Paul Levinson, Aaron Feldman, B. Lana Guggenheim, Daniel Kimmel, Alex Shvartsman] Is it a subgenre of its own? Plenty of Jews write SF, and plenty of non-Jews incorporate Jewish history and elements of the Jewish supernatural into their work. What can we learn from this classification, and does it enrich or limit how we read
Sat 5:30 PM in Plaza VI (Six) (30 mins) Paul Levinson mini-concert
Sat 11:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour) GAME OF THRONES (3600) [Panelists: Charlie Robertson (mod), Michael A. Ventrella, Muriel Hykes, Paul Levinson] It wouldn’t be inaccurate to say that *everybody* lost when it comes to the HBO adaptation. How should the show have ended? How might the ending of the novels differ
Sun 12:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour) HOW FAR CAN YOU SUSPEND SOMEONE’S DISBELIEF? (3514) [Panelists: Elektra Hammond (mod), Paul Levinson, Lawrence Kramer, Julie Ann Dawson, Robert E. Waters] How much can you ask a reader to take on faith before they can’t take your story seriously any more? Are there ways to get readers willing to accept more challenging changes and assumptions? What authors have succeed at pushing the boundaries without pushing their readers out of the story
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Great new interview — with lots of photos — about how I wrote the lyrics to “Looking for Sunsets (In the Early Morning)”. Conducted in July 2019, published September 6, 2019. Read it here.
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Interview by Howard Margolin on Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction, WUSB Radio, Stony Brook, NY, August 16, 2019 — listen to it here.
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my Readercon 30 schedule Quincy, MA, July 11–14, 2019
July 12, 5:00 PM Salon 4 • Fascism as a Genre • Gillian Daniels, Ruthanna Emrys, Paul Levinson (moderator), Howard Waldrop Many thinkers have approached fascism as storytelling. In 1936, Walter Benjamin wrote, “The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.” Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism” considered this approach. And in 2018, Nick Harkaway tweeted, “Part of the danger of Fascism is that it’s less an agenda and more a style.” How can the lens of genre help us understand and combat fascism in the present era? What would anti-fascist aesthetics look like, and how can we write them into speculative fiction?
10:30 PM Salon 3 • Meet the Pros(e) Each writer at this party has selected a short, pithy quotation from their own work and is armed with a sheet of 30 printed labels, the quote replicated on each. As attendees mingle, the request “May I have a sticker?” provides a convenient icebreaker for tongue-tied fans approaching the pros whose work they love. Rearrange stickers to make a poem or statement, wear them as decoration, or simply enjoy the opportunity to meet and chat with your favorite writers.
July 13, 12:00 PM (Noon) Salon 3 • The Implications of SFWA’s Rate Increase • Scott H. Andrews, Pablo Defendini, Michael J. DeLuca (moderator), Paul Levinson, Romie Stott SFWA will be be raising their designated qualifying rate for fiction from 6 to 8 cents per word in September. It might seem a small change, but it has the potential to alter the field significantly for a lot of writers, readers, editors, and publishers. This panel, led by Michael J. DeLuca, will discuss what the change means for specific markets, who’ll be able to meet the new rate, who benefits and who doesn’t, and how this relates to the broader economic and political climate. This session has CART real-time captioning.
July 14, 11:30 AM Salon C • Reading: Paul Levinson: “It’s Real Life” (an alternate-reality Beatles short story)
12:00 PM (Noon) Autograph Table • Autographs: Paul Levinson, Dianna Sanchez
Videos of my panels here and here …
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Galactic Philadelphia reading April 2, 2019
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I’ll be reading from Marilyn and Monet and singing If I Traveled to the Past (from Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time (on Old Bear Records w/vinyl distributed by Light In The Attic Records ) on DESTINIES-The Voice of Science Fiction WUSB Radio 4/24/20 Hour-long 37th anniversary special, STARTING 11:30PM, featuring encore readings by Peter David, Scott H. Andrews ,Patrick Thomas, athena kaimen, Paul Levinson; music by Devo Spice, Weird Al” Yankovic, Paul Levinson; plus DeFlip Side, Phil Merkel, Linda Eder =========================================================
“Golem, Frankenstein, Westworld” lecture, November 27, 2018, Third Annual City Tech Symposium on Science Fiction, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY – video of lecture
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Fri 6:00 PM in Plaza II (Two) (1 hour)
THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF SELF-PUBLISHING (3050) [Panelists: Chris Kreuter (mod), Paul Levinson, Danielle
Ackley-McPhail, April Grey, Michael D’Ambrosio, Russ Colchamiro] When is it better to shop your book around to publishers, and when
does it make more sense to put it out yourself
Fri 8:00 PM in Executive Suite 623 (1 hour)
READINGS: (3332) [Panelists: Joan Wendland (mod), Muriel Grabe, Paul Levinson]
Fri 10:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Three (1 hour)
WESTWORLD SEASON 2 (3161) [Panelists: Barna William Donovan (mod), Paul Levinson, Anastasia Klimchynskaya]
Sat 11:00 AM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour)
SPACE FORCE OR SPACE FARCE? (3112) [Panelists: Bob Hranek (mod), Bruce Dykes, Paul Levinson, Charlie Robertson, Mark Wolverton, Andre Lieven] Join us as we discuss the fact and (science) fiction of near-future
space military operations
Sat 12:00 PM in Plaza II (Two) (1 hour)
INDIE PUBLISHING 103: THE PUBLISHING PROCESS (3070) [Panelists: Alex Shvartsman (mod), Aaron Rosenberg, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Paul Levinson, Ken Altabef] From cover design to distribution options, where do you take your masterpiece
Sat 1:00 PM in Plaza III (Three) (1 hour)
INDIE PUBLISHING 104: MARKETING (3071) [Panelists: Ken Altabef (mod), Leighland Feinman, Paul Levinson, Russ Colchamiro] Indie writers talk about their marketing successes and fails. How do you set realistic expectations for the response to your efforts?
Sat 6:00 PM in Plaza III (Three) (1 hour)
OUR FASCINATION WITH MARS (3061) [Panelists: Jazz Hiestand (mod), John Ashmead, Michael D’Ambrosio, Paul Levinson, Tobias Cabral] Since the days of H.G. Wells, Mars has figured greatly in SF. How have SF views of Mars changed as our understanding of the planet grew. Why does it still matter today?
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Interviewed by Roy Green about Donald Trump and Jim Acosta, November 10, 2018. Listen to interview here.
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“Fake News in Real Context,” November 7, 2018, Prospect, Connecticut Library, organized by Larry Rifkin, Connecticut Humanities Grant. (Listen to podcast recording of my talk.)
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“Why Time Travel Is So Enjoyable,” October 13, 2018, NY State Communications Association, 76 Annual Conference, Callicoon, NY
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October 8, 2018: J. David Core interviewed me – listen here .
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October 2, 2018: I was interviewed by Harold Channer about my music and media theories.
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September 18, 2018: I was interviewed on Life in the Foam by Clinton Ignatov about Marshall McLuhan, my science fiction, music, and Trump.
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September 13, 2018: I spoke at Amazing Stories re-launch event at the Merril Collection in Toronto, Canada. The new issue of Amazing Stories has my new story, “Slipping Time”
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August 24, 2018: I was on “Religion on Mars” plenary panel with James Heiser and Michael Waltemathe at the 21st International Mars Society Convention in Pasadena, California
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August 21, 2018: I was interviewed by Phil Merkel a second time on WUSB Radio about my science fiction, music, and views about Trump (see below, July 17, for first interview)
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August 11, 2018: I sang “Today Is Just Like You” (words and music by Paul Levinson) at The Blue Dahlia’s “bon voyage” concert at Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn
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July 17, 2018: I was interviewed by Harold Channer about fake news, Marshall McLuhan, and Donald Trump
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July 17, 2018: I was interviewed by Phil Merkel on WUSB Radio about my science fiction, music, and views about Trump
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I was on panels at Readercon, Boston Marriott Quincy, July 13-14, 2018
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May 29, 2018: I was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly about Roseanne Barr, Charles Blow, and the New York Times
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April 17, 2018: guest lecture, New York University, “Fake News and Propaganda” in Casey Lum’s Theory of Media and Culture Studies course
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April 9, 2018: Touching the Face of the Cosmos conference, Fordham University, Lincoln Center: Paul Levinson, Guy Consolmagno SJ, Michael Waltemathe, James Heiser, Molly Vozick-Levinson, Brittany Miller, David Walton, Alex Shvartzman, Lance Strate, Mark Shelhamer, Tom Klinkowstein
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I was interviewed by Paul Gibbons about Fake News, Free Speech vs Hate Speech, Media Bias, and Trump on March 28, 2018
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see you in Grand Rapids this Tuesday!
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I was interviewed for 60 minutes by Paul Gibbons about Fake News on his Think Bigger, Think Better podcast , January 26, 2018
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I was on The Stream on Al Jazeera English, with Michelle Lipkin and Claire Wardle, talking about fake news for 30 minutes, on `17 January 2018
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ICYMI: recent interviews with me in Barren Island Books … The Morton Report … SpecMuse … The Cult of Me … Mars Ascend … Patrick Satters blog … Hungry Writer … Framing Stories … Randomize Me … Figure/Ground … Kathleen Valentine’s blog … Take the Plunge … Writer’s Bloc … Second Life … Zen of Teaching … Noahkmullette-gillman blog … Book Goodies … The Alcove … Roy Christopher … It’s Psychedelic Baby! …. SR Rocks … NYC Music Net … PodioMedia Chat … The Functional Nerds … Michael Ventrella’s blog … Eating Authors … Other Space… UNIROCK TV… Twelve-Minute Convos … Book ‘Em … Hour of the Wolf …
My YouTube Channel … interviews, speeches, news clips, readings
And here are more interviews with me on a variety of podcasts over the years: Jason Rennie interviewed me on December 16, 2006 about science fiction and philosophy on The SciPhi Show .. and again on March 10, 2008 on The SciPhi Show about Robert Heinlein and Barack Obama … Stephen Euin Cobb interviewed me on February 6, 2008 about nanotechnology, SETI, the Fermi Paradox, the probability and impact of our finding another Earth, and more on The Future and You … Barna Donovan and Ernabel Demillo interviewed me on March 26, 2009 about “sexting,” the First Amendment, more on Culture Wars … Joy Cardin interviewed me on May 1, 2009 about the impact of Twitter, on Wisconsin Public Radio … The Gypsy Poet (Sophia) interviewed me on May 17, 2009 about The Plot to Save Socrates, New New Media, the First Amendment and more on BlogTalkRadio … John Munson interviewed me on June 24, 2009 about new new media in Iran and the world on Wisconsin Public Radio … Mike McConnell interviewed me on September 2, 2009 about new new media on 700WLW Radio, Cincinnati … Kojo Nnamdi interviewed me on September 15, 2009 about new new media on National Public Radio … Barna Donovan and Ernabel Demillo interviewed me on October 8, 2009 about new new media on Culture Wars, WSPC Radio, Jersey City, NJ … Fred W. Hoffman interviewed me on January 19, 2010 about new new media on KCPS Radio, Burlington, Iowa … Gordon White interviewed me on February 24, 2010 about new new media on Social Media Podcast, Edinburgh, Scotland … John DeNardo interviewed me on November 1, 2010 about new new media, science fiction, the Beatles,, nudity on TV, more on the SF Signal Podcast … Chris Williams interviewed me on October 27, 2012 on Fordham Conversations about monsters, real and fictional, on WFUV-FM … Erik Marshall interviewed me on September 11, 2014 about writing, technology, music, and productivity on the WET podcast . . . John McMullen interviewed me on August 16, 2015 about writing, science fiction, music, teaching on the johnmac radio show … Kirk LaPointe interviewed me on August 21, 2017 on Roundhouse Radio 98.3 (Vancouver) about doxing, online vigilanteism, and white supremacists…
Previous appearances (March through November, 2017):
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- March 1, 6-9pm, “Science Fiction, Language, and General Semantics,” panel with Paul Levinson, Ed Tywoniak, Marleen Barr, and Lance Strate – for the New York Society of General Semantics, at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park S., New York City – admission FREE – details here … and here’s video of my talk
- March 4, 12noon-2pm, “Why the Impossibility of Time Travel Makes Such Good Fiction,” I talked for well over an hour, to the Garden State Speculative Fiction Writers, and then went on to questions and answers – Old Bridge Public Library, One Old Bridge Plaza, Municipal Center, Old Bridge, NJ -admission FREE – details here
- March 10-12, HELIOsphere, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Tarrytown, 455 South Broadway, Tarrytown, New York – my events: FRIDAY (March 10) 5:30pm – 7:00pm – “Religion in Sci Fi and Fantasy” (panel); SATURDAY (March 11) 2:30pm – 4:00pm – “Robots 201: After the Three Laws” (panel) ; SUNDAY (March 12) 12noon – 1:30pm – Westworld and the Civil Rights of Robots” (solo talk); reading & autographing (times to be announced) – details here
- April 7-9, Lunacon, Westchester Marriot, 670 White Plains Road, Tarrytown New York – my events: FRIDAY (April 7) 5:30-6:00pm (reading, from a new story), 7:30-8:30pm “The Politics of Villains and Monsters” (panel); SATURDAY (April 8) 2:30-3:30pm “Artificial Intelligence in SF” (panel), 4:00-5:00pm “My Character Is Not Me” (panel); SUNDAY 10:00-11:00am “Be a Futurist Visionary! SIGMA Futurist” (panel); 11:30am-12:30pm “Self-Publishing: Ins, Outs, and Roundabouts” (panel) – details here
- July 14-16, Readercon, Boston Marriott Quincy, my events: FRIDAY (July 14) 4-5pm, Autographing; 6-7pm “The Catastrophe of Success” (panel); SATURDAY (July 15), 10-10:30am, reading from my new novelette, “Marilyn and Monet”; here’s a video of my reading
- August 19, I talked about The Chronology Protection Case at the Movies4Movies Film Festival in Dobbs Ferry, NY, where The Chronology Protection Case was selected as a FINALIST. The event took place at the Dobbs Ferry Public Library. A screener for the movie was shown in the 4-5pm block; here’s a video of the Q & A
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And here’s more about The Chronology Protection Case movie (FREE on Amazon Prime). It’s a 40-minute short, adapted by Jay Kensinger from my 1995 Nebula-nominated novelette published in Analog, and reprinted six times. The movie was made in 2002 but has been recut with a new, extended ending. (The original novelette is available here.)
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- September 22, I was on panels and and autographed books at the Baltimore Book Festival: 11am-12noon, panel: What Is the Science Fiction Writers of America?; 4-5pm, book signing; 5-6pm, panel: Mixing Genres. More info here.
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- October 13, Eric McLuhan, John Carey, and I were on the plenary McLuhan in New York panel at Fordham University Law School, Room 7-119, 7pm-9pm, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Marshall McLuhan at Fordham University in New York, 1967-1968. Eric talked about his work with his father at Fordham University 1967-1968; I talked about “The Omnipotent Ear,” or how binge-watching TV has flipped into binge-listening to the Beatles Channel on Sirius XM Radio; and John Carey talked about The Responsive Chord, 2017. Video here.
- I was on some excellent science fiction panels at Philcon, November 10-11, 2017: Friday, 6pm, Selling Science Fiction in 2017 America; 7pm, autographing; Saturday, 2pm, Sense8; 7pm, Westworld; 8pm, Cybernetics, DRM, and the Right to Repair.
- I was on Hour of the Wolf on WBAI-FM with Jim Freund on Thursday, November 16, 2017 from 1am-3am, talking for two hours about free speech, the media, science fiction, and reading excerpts from a brand new story, not yet finished, “Robinson Calculator” … Video from Facebook Live is below …
