Re: A YASID that was not Answered

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