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The Plot to Save Socrates

By Paul Levinson

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| Paperback | 9780765311979

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Book Description

Paul Levinsons astonishing new SF novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics, is shown a recently discovered new dialog of Socrates, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elContinue

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The Plot to Save Socrates By Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson's novel The Plot to Save Socrates is an old-fashioned science fiction adventure novel of time travel, academics and Greek philosophy. A document is discovered in which Socrates is offered a chance at escaping his famous death-by-hemlock ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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interesting premise. time travelers set out to save Socrates. i don't know a lot about philosophy, so I'm not sure if the representations of the philosophers were accurate, but they seemed fine. It felt stiff - many of the characters were very flat. And the representation of the one woman in the ... (continue)

interesting premise. time travelers set out to save Socrates. i don't know a lot about philosophy, so I'm not sure if the representations of the philosophers were accurate, but they seemed fine. It felt stiff - many of the characters were very flat. And the representation of the one woman in the book was particularly one-dimensional .
But - it was interesting. the plot kept moving and all the pieces fell together in the end. I did finish it. And I don't regret reading it, so that's something.

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