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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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On 11/8/2024 7:20 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 11/8/2024 9:02 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> If so, then somebody screwed up the marketing blurb.

And this would surprise you ... because...?

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