Journal of Tourism & Hospitality
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Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA

Biography

Paul Levinson's nonfiction books include The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), New New Media (2009/2012), McLuhan in an Age of Social Media (2015), Fake News in Real Context (2016) & have been translated into 15 languages. His novels include The Silk Code, Borrowed Tides , The Consciousness Plague , The Pixel Eye, The Plot To Save Socrates , Unburning Alexandria, & Chronica. His LPs include Twice Upon A Rhyme & Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time.

Publications

• Commentary   
  Looking Back at “The Missing Orientation”: One Year Later
  Author(s): Paul Levinson*
  
  Space tourism has received three literal liftoffs in the past year, and science fiction about space travel is flourishing, with new Star Trek seasons and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series streaming this fall. All of these both kindle and express our sense of wonder, but the pathways to space are still expensive and dangerous, and they need to be connected to the taproots of our sense of wonder In religion and science fiction, so those pathways stay open and strong... View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0269.21.10.475

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