Phil D'Amato

Dr. Phil D’Amato is the central character in three science fiction mystery novelettes and three novels written by Paul Levinson. The first novelette, "The Chronology Protection Case", was adapted into a radio play which was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. The first novel, The Silk Code, won the Locus Award for the Best First Novel of 1999. The fictional D'Amato, who has a PhD in forensic science, is a detective with the NYPD.

Dr. Phil D’Amato debuted in "The Chronology Protection Case", published in the American magazine Analog in 1995. The novelette was nominated for Nebula and Sturgeon Awards.

It has been reprinted five times:

The novelette was adapted into a radio play written by Mark Shanahan (with Paul Levinson and Jay Kensinger) in 2002, and performed at New York City's Museum of Television and Radio. In addition to being nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Play, the radio play was later recorded and released as an audiobook by Listen & Live/Audible.com in 2004.

"The Chronology Protection Case" was also adapted into a student film by director Jay Kensinger, which premiered at the I-Con SF Convention in 2002, and was later released on DVD by MODVEC Productions. A review can be found here. A re-cut version of the movie, in black-and-white and with a new extended ending, was released in 2013.

"The Chronology Protection Case" extrapolates from Stephen Hawking’s chronology protection conjecture, and posits a vengeful universe that seeks to protect itself from time travel by killing any scientists who discover or even begin to understand how to do it.

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