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Chronology Protection Case, The (Unabridged)
Chronology Protection Case, The (Unabridged)
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Five Stars
Categories :  Sci-Fi
Drama
Dramatizations
Detective
Crime & Thrillers
 
Publisher :  Listen & Live
Author :  Mark Shanahan
Narrator :  Mark Shanahan
 
Length :  40 minutes (Unabridged)
 
Download Price :  £9.99
 
Format :  Encoded Windows Media
 
© 2006 Listen & Live
The radio play of The Chronology Protection Case was adapted by Mark Shanahan with Paul Levinson, based on the novelette by Paul Levinson which first appeared in the pages of Analog Magazine in September, 1995. The script of the radio adaptation was nominated for a prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award as "Best Play of 2003" by the Mystery Writers of America.

The radio play was initially performed live before a studio audience at the Museum of TV & Radio in September of 2002. It was subsequently recorded at CDM Studios in New York City in 2003, featuring a cast of nine actors, with an original sound design and score. The CDM recording was produced by Charles de Montebello and Mark Shanahan.

The Chronology Protection Case radio play, a science fiction murder mystery, features Shanahan in the role of Dr. Phil D'Amato, the forensic detective who appears in Levinson's acclaimed novels, "The Silk Code," "The Consciousness Plague" and "The Pixel Eye." When D'Amato is approached by the distraught wife of a missing scientist whose work is embroiled in secrecy, he is plunged into an adventure with a terrifying and powerful force of nature at the heart of a series of mysterious deaths.

AUTHOR
Paul Levinson writes science fiction, sf/mystery and popular and scholarly non-fiction. The Silk Code won the Locus award for Best First Novel of 1999. His novel The Consciousness Plague won the 2003 Mary Shelley Award for outstanding Fictional Work. Paul, who has published more than 25 science fiction stories, is the Chair of the Communications and Media Studies Department at Fordham University.

NARRATOR
Mark Shanahan, a New York City resident, has appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, off-Broadway, and on film and television. In addition to being an accomplished playwright, he had provided voices for commercials, animation, museum tours, and radio programs.

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"Levinson handles myth, history, science, and police procedures with equal skill, earning high marks for intelligence and originality in the process."
 
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5 stars What Are You Protecting?
Do you always share what you know? How do you decide what to share and what to keep to yourself? Is privy information worth dying for? These are all questions that you ponder as The Chronology Protection Case is played out before you. An outstanding mystery/thriller leaving you begging for more. Even better - it's FREE!
April 2007Valerie from Belton, MO
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