The plot gradually and intricately thickens, with his discovery of others who are likewise forced to replay their lives but the heart of the tale is the swift sophistication of its unpacking of the great dream. This time around and in subsequent cycles of the loop, he knows when he will die. But in 1988, at the age of 43, he again suddenly dies, and reawakens once more, although somewhat later than before. He relives his life, but this time not making his earlier mistakes, and becomes immensely rich. In 1988 a 43-year-old radio journalist dies suddenly, reawakening in 1963 in his eighteen-year-old body with all his memories intact. Grimwood achieved recognition with Replay ( 1987), a highly successful Time Loop fantasy which won a 1988 World Fantasy Award. (1944-2003) US radio journalist and author whose early novels are Breakthrough a Novel of a Woman in Another Time and Place ( 1976), a Reincarnation fantasy in which a woman cured of epilepsy develops the ability to see her past life two centuries before Elise: A Terrifying Novel of Immortality ( 1979), another fantasy dealing with the Immortality theme the nonfantastic thriller Two Plus Two ( 1980) as by Alan Cochran and The Voice Outside ( 1982), a thriller featuring mind-control elements.
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