Science fiction

Replay

by Ken Grimwood

At forty-three, radio journalist Jeff Winston dies in 1988 and awakens in his eighteen-year-old body at college in 1963 with every memory intact. Knowledge of the future lets him pursue wealth, different careers, and relationships, but each new life ends at the same moment and returns him to an ever-later point in youth. Discovering another person caught in the cycle transforms his private experiment into a shared search for meaning and a possible explanation. Reflective and propulsive, this time-loop novel suits readers who enjoy alternate lives, foreknowledge, second chances, and stories asking whether unlimited revision makes happiness easier or simply exposes which parts of living cannot be controlled.