Finding an old book without remembering the title or author.

[Roger]

Does anyone know a way to find an old book you read and loved as a teen but can't remember the title or author? I know that is really bad but I loved this scifi book.

Book was about a married couple both musicians the wife dies because of (cancer?) and husband has her frozen. He can't stand to live without her and has himself frozen as well at death. thousand years later he is revived because he has now become famous for his music.

She is not revived. He goes back and is frozen again at least two more times over the next ten thousand years trying to find a way to save her. Finally many years later he is revived because he is the only one who remember what war was like and they feel earth is threatened by a mysterious force.

He clones himself many times and goes into the universe to discover the source of the earth threat.

I loved this book as a kid and would love to find it again!

thanks
Roger

[Alan]

Google suggests that the book you remember ia Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield

[Trike]

Yeah, it does sound like Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

I actually preferred the shorter novella version ("At the Eschaton") that appeared in the four-story anthology Far Futures, but both were good.

[Tobias]

To answer your first question, how to find books you've forgotten: There are groups dedicated to just that, such as https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

I thought it might be The First Immortal, but Tomorrow and Tomorrow sounds way more likely.

The problem with both of them is that they were published in the late 90s, which doesn't fit with Roger reading them as a teen (his profile says he's 45 years old).

[Trike]

Memory is a funny thing. If you don't have specific milestones to fix something in time, it's hard to recall exactly when you experienced something.

At some point on Twitter I posted, "When I say 'the other day,' that could be last Tuesday or 1985." I don't even know when I said that.

[Eric]

Trike wrote: "Memory is a funny thing. If you don't have specific milestones to fix something in time, it's hard to recall exactly when you experienced something.

At some point on Twitter I posted, "When I say ..."

My wife yells at me for doing that all the time. I've taken to saying, "the other day....I mean, four months ago...."

[Robert]

Kathy wrote: "Hi,
I remember reading a Lord of the Rings type book based on a quest. The team are attacked by a huge spider in the woods and the dwarf throws a mace at its head. I think there is a magic sword or..."

The Sword of Shannara

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...