The Plot to Save Socrates

Name: The Plot to Save Socrates
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Levinson
ISBN: 9781593163501

Author: Paul Levinson

Narrator: Mark Shanahan

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio

Published: 04/10/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Paul Levinson's astonishing new Sf novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript, with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max. The trail leads her to a time machine in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York, and into the past -- and to a time traveler from her future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history, or to do so herself. And she finds that time travel raises more questions than it answers. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades (of the honeyed thighs) and Thomas Appleton, the great 19th century American publisher, to Socrates himself appear. with surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisette on April 26, 2009

THE PLOT TO SAVE SOCRATES There’s an old saying, “If you love Greek history and you’re fascinated by time travel, you’ll love Paul Levinson’s The Plot To Save Socrates. If you’re reading this in 2009, you’ll likely disagree that it’s an old saying, but if you time travel to 2061, you’ll find that it’......more

Goodreads review by Giovanni on April 04, 2011

Being a big Bill & Ted’s Great Adventure fan, I could not pass this sci-fi work up. I mean getting another crack at Socrates, does it get any better. Later on today the author of this fine piece of work meets me in The G-ZONE. I think it is a great way to start the week personally, another reason to......more

Goodreads review by Nelson on December 18, 2021

The premise was super-interesting — time travel to prevent Socrates' death — but the execution ultimately fell short of expectations. I expected more philosophical discussion, though I read that for some it has too much. I expected a stronger explanation for someone setting out on the path of making......more

Goodreads review by Jeanne on February 03, 2016

This book is unique to say the least. The closest book I can think of with even a remotely similar setting would be The Just City but only just. The only thing that the two have in common is an attempt to 'save' Socrates so he can live on and contribute more to the world and the time travel aspect. T......more

Goodreads review by Ian on March 30, 2016

I really enjoyed this. Great Science Fiction. I love the characters, the drama is great. I really enjoy getting into not just history, but what the author paints ancient life to have possibly been for the individual. The author keeps your attention because you always want to know what is going to ha......more