Style
Reviewers consider Levenson's writing complex. It is often in the first-person and it sometimes takes on other genders or species. Levenson's works often contain Christian Parables, cat-like aliens and complex scientific concepts. Levenson's focus on Science Fiction started when he was eight years old, when his parents took him to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey He has described his writing process in a 2010 interview with author Sonya Clark, stating that he starts writing with either a broad plot outline in mind, or even one daydreamed scene. Often, the process will fail and the result is an incomplete work. His work is inspired by authors ranging from C.S. Lewis to Edgar Allan Poe. In "The Closet" Chiaroscuro, 2003, humankind's unwillingness to accept the consequences of their own choices is examined. Several of his stories are based in Pittsburgh, often in different eras. For example; in "The Boogie-Woogie, Time-Traveling, Cyborg Blues" he chooses Pittsburgh in the 1930s as a back-drop.
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