Episodes

  • Review of Dark Matter 1.3-1.4
    May 22 2024

    Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 387, in which I review Dark Matter 1.3-1.4 on AppleTV+.

    Further places:

    • podcast review of Dark Matter 1.1-1.2
    • written blog post reviews of episodes 1.3 and 1.4

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    9 mins
  • Paul Levinson interviews Mark Dawidziak about Edgar Allan Poe
    May 15 2024

    Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 386, in which I talk to Mark Dawidziak about his latest book A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe, and another iconic author Mark has written about, Mark Twain.

    • more about A Mystery of Mysteries
    • watch a video of this interiew
    • written review of The Pale Blue Eye
    • more about It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Review of Dark Matter 1.1-1.2
    May 8 2024

    Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 385, in which I review Dark Matter 1.1-1.2 on AppleTV+.

    Further places:

    • written blog post review of Dark Matter 1.1-1.2
    • written blog post review of Quantum Suicide
    • audio podcast review of Constellation
    • alternate reality short story "The Other Car"
    • It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles
    • Tetrad on History and Alternate History

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    9 mins
  • Review of Rebel Moon, Parts 1 and 2
    Apr 30 2024

    Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 384, in which I review Rebel Moon, Parts 1 and 2.

    Written blog post reviews of Rebel Moon, Part 1 and Part 2.

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    11 mins
  • Review of Constellation
    Apr 23 2024

    Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 383, in which I review the first season of Constellation.

    Written blog post review of Constellation.

    Mentioned in the podcast:

    • "The Chronology Protection Case": novelette, movie, radio play (audio book)
    • It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles: novel, radio play of first chapter, video of book launch
    • "The Other Car": short story, audio book
    • written blog post review of Gerrit Van Woudenberg's Quantum Suicide

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    11 mins
  • Review of American Rust 2
    Apr 16 2024

    Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 382, in which I review the second season of American Rust.

    • written blog post review of the second season of American Rust
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    8 mins
  • 'It's Real Life' at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival
    Apr 6 2024

    Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 381, a special Saturday episode of this podcast, in which Captain Phil and I talk about the Philip K. Dick Film Festival going on today at the Musuem of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens; a panel I'll be moderating there at 2:40 this afternoon on the Anatomy of a Feature Winning Script; my novel It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles which has just been published and for which no movie or TV script has yet been written (but a radio play has been adapted from the first chapter, see the links below); Philip K. Dick; and much more.

    • The Philip K. Dick Film Festival
    • It's Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles novel
    • It's Real Life the radio play

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    43 mins
  • Review of 3 Body Problem season one
    Apr 2 2024

    Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 380, in which I review the first season of 3 Body Problem.

    • written blog post review of first season of 3 Body Problem
    • science fiction works mentioned in the podcast: Ender's Game, Childhood's End, To Serve Man, Dune, Foundation
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    9 mins