Eventually, the two decide to try to find other replayers by placing cryptic messages in newspapers. Complications arise when they notice that their replays are getting shorter and shorter, with Pamela not beginning her next replay until well after Jeff. Pamela and Jeff eventually fall in love and become convinced that they are soulmates. He locates her and asks her questions about future films which only a fellow replayer would know, confirming his suspicions. Because the film did not exist in previous replays, Jeff suspects that Pamela is also experiencing the same phenomenon. The film is written and produced by an unknown filmmaker, Pamela Phillips, who has recruited Steven Spielberg to direct and George Lucas, as a special effects supervisor, before the two shot to stardom with their own projects. Jeff soon realizes that he cannot prevent his death in 1988, but he can change the events that occur before it, both for him, and for others.ĭuring one subsequent replay, Jeff takes notice of a highly acclaimed film, Starsea, that has become a huge success at the box office in 1974. This happens repeatedly with different events in each cycle, each time beginning from increasingly later dates (first days, then weeks, then years, then ultimately decades). He immediately returns to 1963, but several hours later than the last 'replay'. He then begins to relive his life with intact memories of the next 25 years, until, despite his best efforts at cardiac health, he dies of a heart attack, again, in 1988.

Replay is the account of 43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston, who dies of a heart attack in 1988 and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body as a student at Atlanta's Emory University. Lupoff explored a similar premise in his 1973 short story ' 12:01'. Its time-loop concept has been referenced as a precursor of Harold Ramis' comedy-drama Groundhog Day (1993). This happens repeatedly, with the man playing out his life differently in each cycle. He relives his life with all his memories of the previous 25 years intact. The novel tells of a 43-year-old man who dies and wakes up back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body. It won the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Replay is a fantasy novel by American writer Ken Grimwood, first published by Arbor House in 1986.

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