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A Second Chance for Yesterday Hardcover – August 29, 2023

by R A Sinn (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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Created by historian and futurist sibling authors, A Second Chance for Yesterday is a time-twisting story of family, redemption and queer love, for fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife.

Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all our most embarrassing moments. She’s been working non-stop on the next rollout, even blowing off her boyfriend, her best friend and her family to make SavePoint 2.0. But when she hits go on the test-run, she wakes up the next day only to discover it's yesterday. She's falling backwards in time, one day at a time.

As things spiral out of control, a long-lost friend from college reappears in her life claiming they know how to save her. Airin is charming and mysterious, and somehow knows Nev intimately well. Desperate and intrigued, Nev takes a leap of faith. A friendship born of fear slowly becomes a bond of deepest trust, and possibly love. With time running out, and the whole world of SavePoint users at stake, Nev must learn what it will take to set things right, and what it will cost.
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    320 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Solaris
  4. Publication date
    August 29, 2023
  5. Dimensions
    5.56 x 1.2 x 8.69 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1786188279
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1786188274
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A Second Chance for Yesterday by R. A. Sinn
"One of the most mind-bending time-travel stories I've read in years."
How do you let go of the past when it won't let go of you?
"A gripping and thought-provoking take on time travel, entangled with an emotional thread"

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“A gripping and thought-provoking take on time travel, entangled with an emotional thread that will crack your heart open.”—Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars

“A heartfelt-spin on time-travel.”—Nathan Tavares, author of A Fractured Infinity

“One of the most mind-bending time-travel stories I’ve read in years.”—Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone

“Time glitch stans of The Matrix and Back to the Future, ye be glad!”—C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death’s Daughter

“The story broke my mind and my heart.”—Bill Wolkoff, showrunner for Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

“Fascinating and compelling.”—Booklist

“The authors infuse this plausible near future with clever science and heartwarming explorations of love and second chances. At the heart of this brilliant sci-fi conundrum is a deeply human story.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Exhilarating and unputdownable, A Second Chance for Yesterday is an intricate, clever head-rush of a novel that grabs you from the word go! R.A. Sinn deftly layers a charged emotional undercurrent into a relentlessly paced exploration of spacetime, love and hope.”—Lavanya Lakshminarayan, author of The Ten Percent Thief

About the Author

R A Sinn is the pseudonym for siblings Rachel Hope Cleves and Aram Sinnreich — a historian and a futurist collaborating on a time-travel narrative rooted in family dynamics. A historian and professor at the University of Victoria, Rachel Hope Cleves is the author of three books, Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (2020), Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (2014), and The Reign of Terror in America (2009). Her research has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, salon.com and brainpickings.org. Her current nonfiction project is titled “A Sinner’s Guide to Food and Sex in Time.” A Professor and chair of Communication Studies at American University Aram Sinnreich’s work focuses on the intersection of culture, law and technology, with an emphasis on subjects such as emerging media and music. He is the author of three books: The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property (2019), The Piracy Crusade (2013), and Mashed Up (2010). His current nonfiction project, under contract at MIT Press, is titled The Secret Life of Data. He has also written for publications including The New York Times, Billboard, Wired, The Daily Beast, and Salon.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Solaris (August 29, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1786188279
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1786188274
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.56 x 1.2 x 8.69 inches
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R A Sinn is the pseudonym for siblings Rachel Hope Cleves and Aram Sinnreich — a historian and a futurist collaborating on a time-travel narrative rooted in family dynamics.

A historian and professor at the University of Victoria, Rachel Hope Cleves is the author of three books, Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (2020), Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (2014), and The Reign of Terror in America (2009). Her research has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, salon.com and brainpickings.org. Her current nonfiction project is titled “A Sinner’s Guide to Food and Sex in Time.”

A Professor and chair of Communication Studies at American University, Aram Sinnreich’s work focuses on the intersection of culture, law and technology, with an emphasis on subjects such as emerging media and music. He is the author of three books: The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property (2019), The Piracy Crusade (2013), and Mashed Up (2010). His forthcoming nonfiction book, due 2024 from MIT Press, is titled The Secret Life of Data. He has also written for publications including The New York Times, Billboard, Wired, The Daily Beast, and Salon.com.

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Marc Machiz
5.0 out of 5 stars Time travel means you are always saying goodbye.
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2023
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Time travel paradox fiction makes my head hurt. So I was delighted to discover this deft exploration of old problems wrapped in a romance and a healthy skepticism of our tech overlords.

It begins with a headfake. The authors introduce a product that gives you access to a groundhog moment. You can relive the last five seconds at will, begging the question, what happened in the worlds that weren’t reset. Would we fly off into a multiverse story about the outsize effects of tiny moments? Nope. With a nod to the need to stop looping, placing a moment on auto rewind to, I presume, endlessly elongate any enjoyment, the story conjures the possibility that the next product patch will crash space time for ten of millions of customers who bought this rewind gizmo, sending them careening into the past. Anyone who has prematurely downloaded a buggy software update can relate.

From here we get a detailed development of a relationship lived forward by one participant and backward by the other. In romantic comedies, “what’s keeping them apart” is resolved and the characters live happily ever after. But only tragedy can ensue when one character is headed to the future and the other is backward bound. There is no joint ever after.

What’s left are the moments where paths cross, delicious in their own right, but evanescent. Is it a tragedy created by the time travel paradox, or simply a description of the human condition. I think that’s what the authors wanted us to consider.
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T. Newyaer
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun puzzle of a plot, entertaining but intelligent read
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2023
The best part about this novel is its intricate, brain-teaser of a time-travel plot. The plot's cleverness is strong enough to sweep the reader through the tale on a very fun and engaging ride. Some of the future tech bro details made me laugh at loud.

I was less engrossed by the characters, who simply didn't have time to jump to full life, a normal byproduct of the sci-fi complexity involved in the story. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A timey-wimey love story about saving the world
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2023
I was initially skeptical given the small number of reviews. But the story was engaging and I wanted to leave a review to encourage others who might've felt as I did.

If you like stories about time travel (of a sorts), missed connections and second chances, with a likeable, well-developed main character, give this book a go. The last third of the book gave me the same warm but bittersweet feelings that the best Doctor Who episodes bring out.
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Dunia Best Sinnreich
5.0 out of 5 stars A thoughtfully written book
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2023
What I like the most about this time travel book is that it addresses what a lot of others leave out, the what-ifs, the possibility of alternate time lines, the implications of interactions and all that. It feels like it could really happen. All the thumbs up.
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Angela from MD
5.0 out of 5 stars Futuristic love story
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2023
This is a very futuristic book about Nev, who is a programmer that is working on brain implants that can rewind moments in your life you would like to change. However, things go horribly wrong when her implant takes a test run and has her life going backwards one day at a time.
She is not sure of how to change this until she reunites with a college friend, Airin. Nev describes to Airin what is going on. It is difficult for the pair to begin repairing this test before it goes live to the public. Nev is going backwards and Airin is living a typical life. They are able to meet despite living in different worlds.
It is a very interesting concept and the ending was bittersweet.
I would highly recommend.
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Annarella
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2023
A thought provoking, poignant and intriguing speculative fiction. Part, present and future are just concept and what would happen if you could travel back in time change something ?
A well plotted and clever story, complex and a bit slow at times
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine
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