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It comes in handy that, any time things go wrong, he can reset to a few minutes back and try again.

"Groundhog Day" Loop: After the Fact has the main character taught to use his natural talent for this in a plan to secretly rescue Abraham Lincoln from his assassination.

Although this turns out to be thanks to mistaken identity, and they team up against the real villain in the end.

Fight Dracula: Sherlock Holmes takes on Dracula in The Holmes-Dracula File.

Not until the fifth chapter does the novel switch from third to first person, revealing that 'the old man' is not only a vampire, Dracula himself, but the narrator as well.

The All-Concealing "I": Early chapters of The Holmes-Dracula File obscure the identity of the central character, calling him 'the old man' instead.

Other works by Fred Saberhagen include examples of:

Bram Stoker's Dracula (He wrote the novelization).

Works by Fred Saberhagen with their own trope pages include: His works include the Berserker series, in which the galaxy is threatened by near-unstoppable self-replicating war machines the fantasy Ardneh series (including the Empire of the East trilogy and the Books of Swords) and a series of vampire novels beginning with The Dracula Tape, in which the world's most infamous vampire sets the record straight about the events of Dracula.

Don't waste your time on this one, I felt like ripping my hair out on several occasions.Fred Thomas Saberhagen (– June 29, 2007) was an American Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. Absolutely no surprises along the way either, it is blatantly obvious who Lucy will end up with from the moment he's introduced, and every other plot point is predictable and cloying.

I really have trouble believing this is written by the same author as Last Chance Saloon and Sushi for Beginners, as this book is just riddled with horrible characters, tedious dialogue and a plot that is shallow at best. The protagonist, Lucy, is whiny, obnoxious and very faux-modest, and the dialogue is often either stilted or irritating ( take for example the constant need to address a person by name at the beginning or end of EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE.) The narrator definitely didn't help, as she had none of the charm usually possessed by Marian Keyes' narrators, and managed to make everyone sound even more entitled and awful. However, this book didn't contain a single likeable person. I usually love Marian Keyes, I find her tone of writing very funny and down to earth, and her characters are always relatable and human.