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<blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 9646321" data-attributes="member: 99786">Finished Ken Grimwood's 1986 novel Replay, winner of the WFA in 1988. Shades of Groundhog Day, and in fact apparently Grimwood's lawyers and the film's attorneys had &quot;words&quot;.Story features a 38 year old in 1983 (or 43 in 1988? I forget) in a loveless marriage and a dead-endish job dying, and waking up in the body of 18 year old himself back in 1963. And then what happens thereafter. No spoilers here.I read it in two sittings. While it's ~250 pages long, it was a very fast read. Highly recommended, I don't know what else it was against in the 1988 WFA slate, but it definitely deserved to be nominated, if not the winner.Fun-ish fact - Grimwood died in the town in which I now live, and on June 14th, I will be exactly the age he was when he died (59 and a few months). In terms of fantasy, if I do die and go back to 1984 me (when I was 18), I'll remember to remind my parents TO NOT THROW AWAY MY COPY OF ARDUIN GRIMOIRE.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eyes of Nine, post: 9646321, member: 99786"] Finished Ken Grimwood's 1986 novel [I]Replay[/I], winner of the WFA in 1988. Shades of [I]Groundhog Day[/I], and in fact apparently Grimwood's lawyers and the film's attorneys had "words". Story features a 38 year old in 1983 (or 43 in 1988? I forget) in a loveless marriage and a dead-endish job dying, and waking up in the body of 18 year old himself back in 1963. And then what happens thereafter. No spoilers here. I read it in two sittings. While it's ~250 pages long, it was a very fast read. Highly recommended, I don't know what else it was against in the 1988 WFA slate, but it definitely deserved to be nominated, if not the winner. Fun-ish fact - Grimwood died in the town in which I now live, and on June 14th, I will be exactly the age he was when he died (59 and a few months). In terms of fantasy, if I do die and go back to 1984 me (when I was 18), I'll remember to remind my parents TO NOT THROW AWAY MY COPY OF ARDUIN GRIMOIRE. [/QUOTE]

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