Paul Levinson

writer
Short Story

The Chronology Protection Case


When six of seven physicists (plus one pretty wife) in a time-travel research group meet untimely ends, forensic examiner Phil D’Amato suspects that a paradox-paranoid universe is looking out for itself.
The drive back to Westchester was harrowing. Two cars nearly side swiped me, and one big-ass truck stopped so suddenly in front of me that I had all I could do to swerve out of crashing into it and becoming an instant Long Island Expressway pancake.
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  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novella

Jeff Harris 1

Loose Ends


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  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Loose Ends


Time traveler and history meddler Jeff Harris aims for the 1980s to prevent the Challenger explosion, but instead finds himself in the time of JFK, meets the love of his life, meets other time travelers, toys with the idea of assassinating Nixon and Andropov, and eventually does alter Challenger’s history with unintended consequences for the Soviet Union.
Do you think that, if someone had a mind to do it—if someone really wanted to and had the connections—that someone back in 1982 to 1984 could have forced Andropov from office—could have replaced him with someone not so dictatorial?
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Advantage, Bellarmine


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  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Jeff Harris 2

Little Differences


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  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Little Differences


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  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Jeff Harris 3

Late Lessons


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Novelette

Late Lessons


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Novel

Borrowed Tides


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Audio Play

The Chronology Protection Case


An enjoyable script based on the short story of the same name.
But if you come across something you know to be true, one thing is certain: you can never go back to not knowing.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Film

The Chronology Protection Case

  • written and directed by Jay Kensinger
  • (I-Con, Stony Brook, NY, 20 April 2002)

Stilted acting and hokey science, but still an enjoyable, low-budget adaptation of Paul Levinson’s story with a fine version of D’Amato. —Michael Main
Everything is related to each other on some level, and people have discovered that the deeper you go, the more you find that totally different things are made of the same thing.
Monochrome action shots of a frightened Jay Kensington (as Doctor Phil D
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Sierra Waters 1

The Plot to Save Socrates


Young doctoral student Sierra chases back to ancient Alexandria after her professor who seems to be chasing after a time traveler who is trying to get Socrates to abandon Athenian death row for the future.

Although I haven’t seen a second novel, a sequel novella called “Unburning Alexandria” featured Sierra chasing around 410 A.D. Alexandria.
If I, today, had finished constructing a device, in this room, which allowed you to travel even a day into the past, and you used it to travel into the past to kill or otherwise distract me from completing the device, how would you have been able to travel in the first place into the past, with no device then constructed?
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Ian’s Ions and Eons


In the first story (“Ian’s Ions and Eons”), a man travels back to December 2000, hoping to alter the momentous Supreme Court decision of that month.

Ian and his cohorts have a reprise in “Ian, Isaac and John” (Nov 2011), where a descendant of David Bowe comes back to 1975, purportedly to improve the mix on a Bowe track, but quite possibly with additional motives involving John Lennon. And there are more stories to come, all in Analog.
The Supreme Court will announce its decision the day after tomorrow. Gore’s people want the recount to proceed in Florida. Bush’s do not.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Sierra Waters 2

Unburning Alexandria


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  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Ian, George, and George


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Novel

Sierra Waters 3

Chronica


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  • Undetermined Time Travel
Short Story

Jeff Harris 4

Last Calls


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  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Marilyn and Monet


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Short Story

Slipping Time


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Short Story

Foreseeable

  • by Paul Levinson
  • in AcademicFic, vol. 1, edited by James F. McGrath (Palni, December 2020)

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