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Can I read Rewrite : Loops in the Timescape on EtoBox?
Rewrite : Loops in the Timescape by Benford, Gregory is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rewrite : Loops in the Timescape about?
**In this thematic sequel to Gregory Benford’s award-winning bestseller* Timescape*, a history professor finds that he is able travel back to 1968, the year he was sixteen—here, he finds a slew of mentors with the same ability, including Robert Heinlein, Albert Einstein, and Philip K. Dick and becomes a successful Hollywood screenwriter until some wicked time travelers try to subvert him. **It’s 2002, and Charlie, in his late forties, is a bit of a sad-sack professor of history going through an unpleasant divorce. While flipping the cassette of an audiobook he gets into a car accident with a truck, and wakes up, fully aware as his adult mind, in his sixteen-year-old body in 1968.Charlie does the thing we all imagine: he takes what he remembers of the future and uses it for himself in his present, the past. He becomes a screenwriter, anticipating the careers of Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg, and then, in a 1980s life of excess, he dies, and wakes up again in his bedroom at sixteen in 1968.Charlie realizes things he didn’t see the first time: that there are others like him, like Albert Einstein, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein. In fact, there is a society of folks who loo
Who reads Rewrite : Loops in the Timescape?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Benford, Gregory
- Publisher
- S&S/Saga Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781481487719
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Engineering, Travel
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (158 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14