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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> Robert Woodward wrote:
>>>> I believe that I first posted this about 2 decades ago (thus recent was
>>>> then):
>>>>
>>>> "The recent discussions of parallel worlds reminded me of a book (I
>>>> think it was a novel rather than a story in an anthology) that I read
>>>> sometime in the 60s. This book had time travelers who manipulated time
>>>> by changing events in the past (and thus generate a new timeline). The
>>>> book also had a character (non-time traveller) who remembered the erased
>>>> timelines (IIRC, he, on occasion, couldn't find books he remembered
>>>> reading because they had been written in the erased timeline and not the
>>>> new one). I also remember that the last time manipulation that the time
>>>> travelers performed in the book erased a time line where that character
>>>> had been murdered. In the new one, he was still alive and he did
>>>> remember being killed. Also, it is not Laumer's _The Great Time Machine
>>>> Hoax_ (or _Dinosaur Beach_), Brunner's _Times Without Number_, one of
>>>> Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories (nor _Corridors of Time_), or
>>>> Asimov's _The End of Eternity_."
>>>
>>> "Replay" by Ken Grimwood is vaguely along these lines but it was
>>> published in 1998.
>>>     https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X
>>>
>>> "Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he
>>> died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room;
>>> he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again
>>> -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from
>>> scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past
>>> mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market. A novel of gripping
>>> adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time,
>>> Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?""
>>>
>> I've read 'Replay'.  He doesn't restart at 18 each time.  After each
>> death he restarts a bit older until at the end he is restarting seconds
>> before death, then fractions of a second.  When he reached the point of
>> restarting at or "after" death he got a final Replay to use all that he
>> had learned.  There was also a woman going thru the same thing that he
>> met during one of his replays and starting finding in each subsequent
>> run.  The epilogue was that once Winston and his partner stopped
>> Replaying another couple started the cycle.
>
> If so, then somebody screwed up the marketing blurb.  And I seem to
> remember that he grew older each replay also (been a long time since I
> read the book, it is in my reread list).

Dimensional's recollection is correct.

REPLAY, 12:01 PM, and the like offer a favored plot-line. Because such
stories sublimate "practice makes perfect." On the other hand, my wife
despises re-run stories for being too loopy.

# # #

On a different note, this part pertains to parallel worlds previously
posted by me to this thread. The snippet below played through my
earbuds during tonight's trek through the twilit trail on the mountain
side with my dog. (Predators abound so my wife's 38 is always strapped
to my side to scare them off if need be.)

    suppose God is outside and above the Time-line. In that
    case, what we call 'tomorrow' is visible to Him in just
    the same way as what we call 'today'. All the days are
    'Now' for Him. He does not remember you doing things
    yesterday; He simply sees you doing them, because, though
    you have lost yesterday, He has not. He does not 'foresee'
    you doing things tomorrow; He simply sees you doing them:
    because, though tomorrow is not yet there for you, it is
    for Him. You never supposed that your actions at this
    moment were any less free because God knows what you are
    doing. Well, He knows your tomorrow's actions in just the
    same way-because He is already in tomorrow and can simply
    watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till
    you have done it: but then the moment at which you have
    done it is already 'Now' for Him.

    BEYOND PERSONALITY: OR FIRST STEPS IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE
    TRINITY by Lewis

The above brings to mind the multiverse mentioned in PR269 HUNT FOR THE
TIME AGENT.

<https://www-perrypedia-de.translate.goog/wiki/Jagd_auf_den_Zeitagenten?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_hist=true>

Danke,

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