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{{work|wppage=Replay (Grimwood novel)}}
{{Infobox book
[[File:200px-Replay4166ZHz9Sb_398.jpg|frame|Original cover]]▼
| title = Replay
A 1986 Novel by Ken Grimwood.▼
| caption = Original cover
| author = Ken Grimwood
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = "Jeff Winston, who dies of a heart attack in 1988 and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body" ''(Wikipedia)''
| genre = Science fiction
| publication date = January 1986
| source page exists =
| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
}}
Jeff Winston is 43 and stuck in a loveless marriage and dead end job. At 1:06pm on October 18, 1988, he has a sudden, fatal heart attack and the next moment finds himself 18 in his college dorm room in May of 1963. He makes a killer bet on who he already knows will win the Kentucky Derby and uses his winnings and knowledge of the future to create a Fortune 500 company. By 1988 he is wealthy and powerful... and on October 18, 1988 he suffers another fatal heart attack, waking up in 1963 again.
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He meets Pamela, a woman who is also stuck in the loop. Together they find some stability in their lives and seek out others who may be looping themselves.
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* [[Alternate History]]: Given the length of time this character loops, each "replay" is one of these by differing degrees.
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Ken Grimwood was writing a sequel when he died in 2003.
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** Yet during a different replay when [[The Hedonist|he has a lot of sex and experiments with drugs]] he muses to himself that the future of the 1980's has AIDS.
* [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]]: Invoked in-universe in an art exhibit Pamela made for public viewing but knew only Jeff would understand.
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* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: A particularly long one of 25 years. Notable that this book came out 8 years before ''[[
* [[Groundhog Peggy Sue]]
* [[Here We Go Again]]: {{spoiler|A different, completely unrelated character in the epilogue wakes up in 1988, having just had a heart attack in 2017.}}
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* [[Tagline]]: ''If you could live your life over again...''
* [[Technology Marches On]]: With appearances of the [http://www.wang1200.org/ Wang 1200] and [[wikipedia:1chr(22) type C videotape|Sony VTR]]. The following quote happens in 1974:
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* [[Take Our Word for It]]: The description of the tear-inducing movie ''Starsea'', which in-universe was a blockbuster movie everyone was talking about, and the story Pamela tells her children of it.
* [[Time Travel for Fun
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Jeff's heart attack happens in 1988, but the book was published in 1986 - two years before 1988. The most up-to-date event covered is [[wikipedia:Challenger disaster|The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster]], but the author remains purposefully vague on 1987 and 1988, because they hadn't actually happened yet. While there were arguably plenty of notable events in those years, luckily there was nothing on the level of another [[Pearl Harbor]] or a 9/11.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: Written in the 1980's, when people would find many of these events nostalgic. Now that it has been almost 25 years since it came out, it's more of a time capsule of the 25 year period.
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{{World Fantasy Award Novel}}
[[Category:The Seventies]]
[[Category:The Eighties]]
[[Category:The Sixties]]
▲[[Category:Replay]]
[[Category:Literature]]
[[Category:Literature of the 1980s]]
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