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The Plot to Save Socrates

by Paul Levinson

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ISBN13: 9780765311979
ISBN10: 0765311976
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Paul Levinson's astonishing new SF novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max.  The trail leads her to time machines in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York, and into the past--and to a time traveler from her future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades (of the honeyed thighs) to Thomas Appleton, the great nineteenth-century American publisher, to Socrates himself appear. With surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates.

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PAUL LEVINSON lives in White Plains, New York.

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D.B. Pacini, April 8, 2009 (view all comments by D.B. Pacini)
I am a published author and a mentor to teen and young adult writers. I read a lot of books. I usually read them, make some notes about them in my journals, and then pass them on to other writers. I met Paul Levinson on Myspace. To be honest, I bought THE PLOT to SAVE SOCRATES because I liked the title. I was intrigued by the idea that there could be a discovered dialogue that reveals that Socrates may have taken an opportunity that I can image Socrates being willing to take. I enjoyed strapping myself to this remarkable time-traveling adventurous romp and can't give this book away. I must keep it. If you don't "get it" after the first reading I recommend that you read it a second time.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780765311979
Author:
Levinson, Paul
Publisher:
Tor Books
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Science / General
Publication Date:
February 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
270
Dimensions:
9.14x6.18x.76 in. .67 lbs.

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