Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: A YASID that was not Answered Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 20:26:44 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:26:45 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3920e4cceab704ea043b7b5c86959479"; logging-data="3062491"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+E3Mp+WtsesA7Ticb6I0VH8b2Gx8k5yk4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:OqW9y01j1K5uKBs70pc1yPccZP4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2890 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