The Plot to Save Socrates
Written by Paul Levinson
Narrated by Mark Shanahan
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
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.
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Reviews for The Plot to Save Socrates
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love a good time traveling story, and this one has the added bonus of being a mystery, an adventure, an a Platonic dialogue all wrapped in one. My only complaint would be that some characters' motivations are unclear; the book seems to beg a sequel to explain these loose ends. Or maybe I just couldn't wrap my head around it. At any rate, I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone interested in time travel or philosophy. I also recommend reading it in one sitting (quite possible), to have the best chance of keeping the characters, times, and plots in good order in your own mind.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An interesting book. A group of future saviours of Socrates plot, scheme and squabble to prevent the execution of the great philosopher. The characters are a little dry (but then I am a fan of Greg Egan), so that does not worry me greatly. It is the story that carries the novel. I had to keep track of the characters and action as the setting changes through several periods in both the ancient and modern world—a complex story. I found the resolution, the death of Socrates in the mid-21st from incurable brian cancer, anti-climatic. This does raise the question, why save Socrates? He was already an old man.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I finished it but I'm still not sure what happened or why. Pretty frustrating.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The scene setting is good, the plot and continuity also good. There could be a little flesh missing around key elements and some origins could be better explored. I wouldn't say it should be a series just a longer book. Altogether an engaging and well written book.