My song "Unbelievable (Inconceivable You)" was recorded by The Vogues on Reprise Records in 1968. Also in 1968, Ellie Greenwich produced my group The Other Voices for Atlantic Records, which released my song "Hung Up On Love". My 1972 album, Twice Upon A Rhyme, was re-issued in Japan and Korea, 2008, and the U. K., 2010. My LP Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time was released by Old Bear Records and Light in the Attic Records in 2020. My story about The Beatles and the late WFUV Radio dj Pete Fornatale, "It's Real Life," was adapted into a radioplay in 2023. The story and the radio play won the Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fiction in 2023. My song "If I Traveled to the Past" plays at the end of the radio pl Sounds Like: The Lovin' Spoonful, The Beatles
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"It's Real Life" radio play wins
"It's Real Life," an alternate history about The Beatles, was made into a radio play in 2023. The story and the radio play won The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fiction in 2023. You can read the story here for free; you can listen to the radio play here for free. "If I Traveled to the Past" (lyrics by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio) plays at the end of the radio play. The story is being expanded into a novel.
Paul Levinson bio
Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, Realspace, Cellphone, New New Media, McLuhan in an Age of Social Media, and Fake News in Real Context have been translated into 16 languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), Borrowed Tides, The Consciousness Plague, The Pixel Eye, The Plot to Save Socrates, Unburning Alexandria, and Chronica. His award-nominated novelette, "The Chronology Protection Case," was made into a short film and is on Amazon Prime Video. His alternate history story about The Beatles, "It's Real Life," was made into a radio play, and is currently a finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. His novelette, "Robinson Calculator," was published in the Robots Through the Ages anthology in July 2023. He was President of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1998-2001. He has appeared on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, NPR, and hundreds of podcast episodes. 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.