#author 20 books: #ScienceFiction novels (best known: The Silk Code, The Plot to Save Socrates), media/politics (best known: The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, New New Media); prof Fordham Univ in New York City; #podcaster; #SingerSongwriter (LPs: Twice Upon a Rhyme, Spun Dreams, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time); what I'm writing these days: time travel, alternate realities; most recent pub: "It's Real Life" =I once had a sign that said a neat desk is a sign of a sick mind, but I lost it.=