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  US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Ken Grimwood
Grimwood took an interest in EC Comics and radio journalism while growing up in Pensacola.
Grimwood's impressive debut novel, Breakthrough (Ballantine, 1976), was heavily influenced by EC Comics, concluding its blend of science fiction, reincarnation and horror elements with a surprising and unpredictable twist ending.
Grimwood's fascination with cetacean intelligence, encounters with dolphins and research into intraspecies dolphin communication gave him the inspiration for Into the Deep (William Morrow, 1995), a "spiritual adventure" about a marine biologist struggling to crack the code of dolphin intelligence.
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 Biography of Ken Grimwood @ SciFi-Fantasy-Info.com
Ken Grimwood (February 27, 1944 - June 6, 2003) was an American author who was born in Pensacola, Florida.
Ken Grimwood took an interest in EC Comics and radio journalism while growing up in Pensacola.
Married once with no children, Ken Grimwood had friends on both coasts, including Tom Atwill, who is related to the actor Lionel Atwill.
www.scifi-fantasy-info.com /ken-grimwood.html   (461 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
Grimwood, who wrote five novels, is best known for his 1986 novel Replay, in which a 43-year-old man dies of a heart attack and awakes in his 18-year-old body in 1963, with all the memories of his previous life.
Grimwood was working on a sequel to Replay when he died, the newspaper reported.
Grimwood is survived by his father, F. Milton Grimwood, of Pensacola, Fla.; a sister, Theresa Panther-Yates, of Statesborg, Ga.; and a brother, Mark Grimwood, of New Orleans.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-06/10/09.15.books   (180 words)

  
 Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Replay (Ken Grimwood)
The best thing about Grimwood's brief novel is that he focuses on his characters rather than his premise.
During the course of his many lives, Winston does what might reasonably be expected any person in his situation would do--from a lifetime as a sybaritic playboy, to a poignant attempt to raise a family.
Except for one deliberately halfhearted attempt, Grimwood makes no effort to explain how replaying is possible--and his story is stronger for this restraint.
www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/GrimwoodKenReplay.shtml   (261 words)

  
 Thiamin Trek Weblog Archives: Notes on Replay by Ken Grimwood
In Replay, Grimwood takes a simple science fiction premise -- a man relives 25 years of his life over and over -- leavens it with a couple of complications (one is that his "replays" keep getting shorter), and plays it out to one of several possible conclusions.
What makes the novel interesting is that Grimwood gradually reveals the "rules" governing the novel's universe, and he consistently brings in new wrinkles with every cycle.
Grimwood was clearly not a show-off, but he obviously worked hard at his writing mechanics to make things very readable and never boring.
96db.com /blog/ReadingNotes/0384-0.htm   (284 words)

  
 Replay by Ken Grimwood, a World Fantasy Award winning book
Ken Grimwood (1944-2003) was a US radio broadcast journalist and novelist.
Ken Grimwood is best known in within the genre for his novel Replay (1987), a literary fantasy time travel book about replaying your life.
Grimwood was reportedly working on a sequel to Replay when he died.
members.aol.com /tirfell/grimwood.htm   (820 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Replay: English Books: Ken Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Grimwood introduces the concept of 'replaying': dying and then starting one's life over again as the same person at the same time in history...
Ken Grimwood has written an extraordinary book that not only is an outstanding story but that also makes the reader think about their lives, the choices we make, and what is truly important to us in the long-run.
Ken Grimwood's Replay is the 1988 World Fantasy Award winner.
www.amazon.de /Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/0877957819   (1910 words)

  
 immediacy: Remembering Ken Grimwood
Ken, wherever you are, you owed your success to a wonderfully original mind.
Grimwood for allowing us to forget the daily problems in our lives and to be transported into an incredible story which we not only are familiar with it's events but would also love to have the opportunity to do even once.
Grimwood's sister is still reading this board, perhaps she can shed some light on this progress, for the hopeful fans.
www.engel-cox.org /influences/remembering_ken_grimwood.html   (11028 words)

  
 Comprehensive information and links about Ken Grimwood
Ken Grimwood (February 27, 1944 - June 6, 2003) was an American author of fantasy fiction combining themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concepts, themes found in his best-known novel, the highly popular.
Born in Pensacola, Florida, Grimwood took an interest in EC Comics and radio journalism while growing up in Pensacola.
Grimwood's fascination with cetacean intelligence, encounters with dolphins and research into intraspecies dolphin communication gave him the inspiration for (William Morrow, 1995), a "spiritual adventure" about a marine biologist struggling to crack the code of dolphin intelligence.
www.quicknation.com /Ken_Grimwood.htm   (858 words)

  
 Ken Grimwood: Replay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Since Grimwood’s novel was published, the idea has been used in such places as Richard Lupoff’s short story "12:01" and the Harold Ramis film "Groundhog Day." In the novel, the main character, Jeff Winston, dies on October 18, 1988 and immediately finds himself alive and well in his own lifetime, but in 1963.
Although the reader can see these as the mistakes they are, Grimwood writes the scenes carefully enough that the mistakes add to the realism of Winston’s character.
Their perceptions of the reason they have been blessed, or cursed, with this gift vary, and they attempt to come to a consensus of why they are caught in a loop, what they should attempt to achieve and how to achieve those ends.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/grimwood.html   (324 words)

  
 Lost Books - Replay by Ken Grimwood
Ken Grimwood is a little known writer in the speculative fiction arena.
Grimwood was 41 when he published Replay and forty has long been seen by Human Development scholars as the mile marker beginning the onset of mid-life crisis in men.
Grimwood manages to cover all of the important highs and lows that life has to offer with each retelling of Jeff's life.
www.lostbooks.org /reviews/2001-02-20-1.html   (1694 words)

  
 Replay by Ken Grimwood (Fantasy Masterworks # 45)
Grimwood knew this intuitively, centring the action on the relationships and personal fortunes of Jeff and his lovers.
Grimwood is not just adept with the content of the work, he is also a master of the spaces between the material.
Unfortunately, Grimwood passed away in 2003, leaving the world a poorer place for the loss of him.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /articles/books/2005/nz9516.php   (993 words)

  
 Reviews on Replay - Ken Grimwood Look at tests, reports and read reviews: dooyoo.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Author: Ken Grimwood / Genre: Fiction At forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age.
Replay by Ken Grimwood is my all time favourite novel.
It doesn't take him long to realise what happened: that he died at 1:06 PM on October 18th, 1988 and somehow has woken up in his college dorm room at some point in 1963 complete with memories of his entire life.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/replay-ken-grimwood/reviews   (410 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Ken Grimwood
Ken Grimwood, a speculative fiction writer, died on June 5 of an apparent heart attack.
Grimwood was best known for his time travel novel, "Replay," which won the World Fantasy Award in 1988.
Ken was really enthusiastic about the prospects of a sequel to Replay.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000036.html   (779 words)

  
 Review of the Ken Grimwood SF novel Replay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
First published in Britain in 1987 by Grafton Books, this edition is number 45 in Gollancz's "Fantasy Masterworks" series.
Ken Grimwood was born in Florida in 1944 and actually was a radio journalist in California, in fact was news director for KFWB in Los Angeles, and won the World Fantasy Award for Replay.
He was working on a sequel to Replay but died in 2003 before completing it.
www.concatenation.org /frev/replaykg.html   (382 words)

  
 Obituary: Ken Grimwood Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
Replay is a story adult readers take to bed with them to solace their dreams; it is a grown-up daydream about having a second chance in life.
Ken Grimwood's death in Santa Barbara, apparently of a heart attack, came as he was preparing a sequel to his greatest success.
Kenneth Milton Grimwood, writer: born Pensacola, Florida 22 February 1944; died Santa Barbara, California 5 June 2003.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030619/ai_n12691295   (342 words)

  
 October '05 BOTM: Replay by Ken Grimwood - sffworld.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This appears to be what Grimwood did in 1988 and what his main character is realizing he can also do.
The one interesting fact I did want to mention was that Grimwood was working on a sequel when he died last year.
October 3rd, 2005, 04:24 PM The one interesting fact I did want to mention was that Grimwood was working on a sequel when he died last year.
www.sffworld.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-11688.html   (1175 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Into the Deep: Books: Ken Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The narrative's early stages contain some drama, but it grows increasingly clogged with Grimwood's utopian vision of a dolphin-inspired paradise in which humanity's troubles are washed away by contact with the universally wise and kind cetaceans.
Ken Grimwood is probably not too far off the mark of what we will eventually discover about dolphin intelligence and communication.
Grimwood has done a very good job telling the story from their eyes.
www.amazon.com /Into-Deep-Ken-Grimwood/dp/0451406451   (1295 words)

  
 Doug's Library -- Ken Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The main plot is about the "first contact" between humans and dolphins thanks to the research in dolphin communication by a beleaguered researcher in California.
Grimwood offers a point of view from both human and dolphin subplots, and the dolphin subplots are clearly the strongest.
Maybe that's because we know better than to believe some of the characterizations he makes of the humans.
personal.tcu.edu /~dingram/books/kgrimwood.html   (203 words)

  
 Ken Grimwood
Ken Grimwood passed away Thursday, June 6, 2003 in Santa Barbara, CA.
Ken was an accomplished writer publishing five novels with Doubleday and Arbor House.
He was working on a sequel to his novel Replay which has been published in several foreign companies and was a best seller in Japan.
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /authors/Ken_Grimwood.htm   (89 words)

  
 Ken Grimwood
I had recently seen books on Amazon for another author with the name Grimwood, Of course I wondered if there was a relation, but didn't look Ken up at the time.
The first author that came to mind was Ken Grimwood.
Googling Ken I found out today that he had died in the Summer of 2003.
homepage.mac.com /madship/iblog/B1269335880/C1875657390/E20050926230812/index.html   (237 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Replay: Books: Ken Grimwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In "Replay" Ken Grimwood has touched on many of our fantasies regarding immortality, reincarnation, time travel, the acquisition of wealth and power, love, lust, creativity, hedonism and the meaning of life.
Most important, he touches on how very precious life is and how we should all make the most of the time we have.
Grimwood creates an interesting concept in Replay, reliving one's life over and over again.
www.amazon.ca /Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/0877957819   (1831 words)

  
 Ken Grimwood, 1945-2003 - SFWA News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Pensacola News Journal reports that Kenneth Grimwood passed away, Thursday.
Grimwood, age 59, was the author of 5 novels, including Breakthrough and Replay which won the World Fantasy award in 1988 and was short listed for several other awards.
He was working on a sequel to Replay.
www.sfwa.org /news/grimwood.htm   (78 words)

  
 Ken Grimwood Message Board
I appreciate that and I hope to continue and be true to Ken's vision-:)
I tried to get in touch with Ken Grimwood's sister but to no avail.
Since the sad demise of Ken Grimwood, has anyone thought about writing a second replay using the characters from the end of Replay?
www.allreaders.com /Board.asp?BoardID=25398   (631 words)

  
 Unmonkey: Unmonkey Review: Replay, by Ken Grimwood
This means, of course, that books cost me more than they need to, especially older ones, but such is life.
This book was released in 1988, but I never noticed it before (probably was a little paperback, stupid publisher).
I picked it up, read the back blurb ("A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?") and was intrigued enough to sit and start reading.
unmonkey.com /blog/2006/02/unmonkey_review_replay_by_ken.html   (334 words)

  
 Ken Grimwood Information
Short story "Static" by Ken Grimwood, Bard Observer (3/20/69)
Short story "Feedback" by Ken Grimwood, Bard Observer (4/17/69)
View a list of authors or edit this article.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ken_Grimwood   (1866 words)

  
 Thiamin Trek Weblog Archives: Notes on Into the Deep by Ken Grimwood
Into the Deep is a weak followup to Grimwood's excellent Replay.
Cetacean (dolphin/whale/etc.) intelligence was clearly one of Grimwood's passions, and the idea of humankind's first encounter with non-human intelligence (especially with creatures on our own planet) has the capacity to fuel a great novel, but this isn't it.
I'm having a hard time putting my finger on what exactly disappointed me, but all I can definitively say is that I was never completely engaged by the story, and Grimwood's writing here seemed much less tight than it was in Replay.
96db.com /blog/ReadingNotes/0398-0.htm   (142 words)

  
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