Band on the Run is Norm Levy’s debut novel, shaped by more than twenty-five years working at the intersection of Hollywood, music, technology, and space-adjacent industries.
While collaborating with major studios on large-scale film productions, Levy gained firsthand insight into how ambitious worlds are built, from logistics and design to music, spectacle, and audience experience. That vantage point inspired a story designed not just to be read, but lived, integrating original music, iconic technology, and cinematic environments from the ground up.
A formative chapter of Levy’s career took place at Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York, located on the historic site where the Apollo Lunar Modules were designed and built, including the module that carried humanity to the Moon. Standing inside former aerospace test facilities while guiding filmmakers through the soundstages left a lasting impression, fusing storytelling and space history into the foundation of Band on the Run.
Levy’s career spans entertainment, immersive technology, and emerging platforms. He developed a voice-based social platform adopted by all major record labels and later served on the launch team for Nokia’s OZO Professional VR Camera, working with studios, sports leagues, and media organizations as virtual reality entered mainstream production. His fascination with space deepened while working with Virgin Galactic’s Zero-G Festival, where he witnessed firsthand how modern visionaries transformed space from abstraction into action.
A lifelong student of history and space exploration, Levy draws inspiration from physicist Gerard K. O’Neill’s vision of permanent human life beyond Earth. Shaped over years of research, revision, and real-world technological change, Band on the Run brings that vision into the very near future at a moment when rockets now routinely land themselves. The story is grounded in real science, lived experience, and the belief that humanity’s next chapter will be written by young voices bold enough to rise.
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