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On 11/7/2024 6:26 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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?""
> 
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.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.