The Silk Code - Softcover

Book 3 of 5: Phil D'Amato series

Levinson, Paul

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Synopsis

Winner Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction novel of 1999.
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Rita Ora used The Silk Code in her November 2016 video promo for Tzenenis.
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Phil D'Amato, a New York City forensic detective (also featured in several of Levinson's popular short stories and two subsequent novels), is caught in an ongoing struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on Earth--and one of his best friends is a recent casualty. Unless Phil can unravel the genetic puzzle of the Silk Code, he'll soon be just as dead.

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About the Author

Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.  His eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), and Cellphone (2004), have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into ten languages. New New Media, exploring blogging, Twitter, YouTube and other "new new" modes of communication, was published by Penguin Academics in September 2009.  His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (1999, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006).  His short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards.  Paul Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News,"  "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS),  "Nightline" (ABC), and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. His 1972 LP, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was re-issued on mini-CD by Big Pink Records in 2009. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog and his Levinsonnewsclips.com podcast, and was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009.

Paul Levinson lives in White Plains, New York.

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