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_."
In article <robertaw-3760E9.10331607112024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> 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_."
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.
Have you considered that you are that character?
Ted Nolan wrote:
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_."
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.
Have you considered that you are that character?
Strangely enough apart from the books that had not been
written it sounds very like Agency and "peripheral"
But those are recent.
I have seen the character who is killed in one timeline and
awakes with some memory in a Western Detective novel and he tatooes
a number on his wrist to keep track as he dies in various timelines.
Maybe the writer will keep him another series. This one
involves a ranching Sheriff and his pal a Native American who has
a mother? involved in shamanism.
A quick search shows the Western Detective genre greatly
enlarged. When I am at the SFPL next time I will try to find
that author and see if he has SF series as well.
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?""
In article <robertaw-3760E9.10331607112024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> 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_."
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.
Have you considered that you are that character?
Dimensional Traveler wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote:
Robert Woodward wrote:I've read 'Replay'. He doesn't restart at 18 each time. After each
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?"" >>>
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 I seem to
remember that he grew older each replay also (been a long time since I
read the book, it is in my reread list).
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've read 'Replay'. He doesn't restart at 18 each time. After each
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?""
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.
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