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.