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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: A YASID that was not Answered
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 20:26:44 -0600
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On 11/7/2024 12:33 PM, 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?""

Lynn