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going back in time and reliving his life. But not forever: each replay is shorter than the one before. In 2003 it was #19 on the Internet Top Although cast as a time travel novel, it turns out to be a story about love and loss and life. We make too big of a deal over what could have been, over how we have screwed up, and not enough of a deal of loving those we love, here and now, while they and we are still here. With time comes wisdom but wisdom always comes after you need it. OUR STORY: At 1.06pm on October 18th 1988 in New York, Jeff Winston, age 43, has a heart attack. The next thing he knows he is back at university in 1963. He is in his 18-year-old body but still has his 43-year-old mind, complete with all its memories and experience. He is able to get rich by betting on horses, baseball, and stocks, but cannot prevent the death of President Kennedy – or his own death. In all his replays he always dies at 1.06pm on Tuesday October 18th 1988 no matter what. And when he goes back in time, he goes back a few months later. And then a few years later: 1968, 1976, 1985, 1988. Each time he gets less time and is less able to change things for the No matter what he does, each time there is loss and regret. Unlike in “Groundhog Day” (1993), loss is an inextricable part of life. He becomes rich, but then loses his daughter. He lives for se* and drugs and jazz and self, but then gets sick of living. He tries to help the CIA change history for the better, but then they kidnap him and, with their Machiavellian logic, wind up changing history for the worst. And He feels extremely lonely: no one understands what he going through. Solzhenitsyn in exile comes the closest. But then one day in the third 1974 he lives through, he sees a movie poster: “Starsea”. It is the work of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and someone he has never heard of: Pamela Phillips. He knows the film was not there in the first two 1974s: it is a huge hit, bigger than “Jaws” or “Star Wars”, and he knows enough about Spielberg and Lucas to know that they never worked on such a film. And