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Book Launch For It's Real Life: An Alternate History of the Beatles
The Players
16 Gramercy Park S
New York, NY 10003
Mar 27, 2024
6:00 PM EDT
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Join us on Wednesday, March 27th for a reading, a little singing, and book signing with Paul Levinson in conjunction with the publication of his latest novel, It’s Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles. It’s Real Life is an expansion of the short story of the same name that won the Media Ecology Association's Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fiction in 2023, and was also made in a radio play.
About the Book: It's 1996, and in this alternate history novel about the Beatles, WFUV disc jockey Pete Fornatale walks in the tunnels under Fordham University, then travels downtown to Grand Central Terminal and finds the world of music that he inhabits is very different. As he struggles to understand how to get in and out of alternate realities, and make sure John Lennon is not killed in any of them, Fornatale will actually dine with John Lennon and David Bowie, consult with Leonard Cohen, attend a Beatles concert with Diana Ross in Central Park in 1996, and work with a variety of real life characters you may or may not have heard of.
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Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor at Fordham University. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), The Consciousness Plague, The Pixel Eye, Borrowed Tides, The Plot to Save Socrates, Unburning Alexandria, Chronica, and It’s Real Life. His novelette “The Chronology Protection Case” was made into a short film and is on Amazon Prime Video. His alternate history short story about The Beatles, "It's Real Life," was made into a radio play, won The Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fiction, and was expanded into a novel It’s Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles published in 2024. 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 (SFWA) 1998-2001. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, and New New Media, have been translated into 15 languages. He has appeared on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the History Channel, and NPR. 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.
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