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The year is 2008. Six years ago, [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|the Holn]] arrived on Earth, bringing amazing technological gifts and fostering good relations with mankind. They even allow one of their ships to be used as a tourist attraction, letting the curious and skeptical explore one of their vessels under their watchful eyes.
Then one day, the ship abruptly takes off, while seventeen tourists are still on board. All adults of varying ages. Soon afterwards, they are dropped off safely -- but all seventeen are now nine-year-old children. Their minds and memories are still intact -- mentally, emotionally, they're still adults -- but physically, they're all the same age. Their former lives have been irreparably shattered by the Holn's [[Blessed
The author, Terry England, juggles the stories of the seventeen adults-turned-children, dubbed the Rewound Children, as they struggle with their new bodies and the chaos they've been thrown into, along with the trials and tribulations of the Holn Effect Task Force -- a group founded to study the children and figure out just what the hell happened. Interspersed with this are news reports, medical files, and various other documents that flesh out the world, illustrating the stark, cruel reality the children face. Several times it drifts into [[Idiot Plot]] territory for the sake of heaping still more drama onto their shoulders and wringing every last drop of angst out of it. The sheer amount of ''crap'' they end up going through is just ''staggering'' in scope, and the gruesome fates some face is pure [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]. [[Harmful to Minors|Definitely not a story for kids]].
Should not be confused with [[William Sleator]]'s ''[[Rewind-William Sleator
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=== Tropes in ''Rewind'': ===
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* [[Badass Grandpa]] - Earl.
* [[Bland-Name Product]] - Mostly averted; from the very start of the book actual networks like ABC and NBC are named. [[Cluster F-Bomb|And call each other names]]. {{spoiler|Later, the ''Soldiers of God'' call for the deaths of the Rewound, and claim credit for the deaths that follow.}}
* [[Blessed
* [[Fan Disservice]] - ''Rewind'' opens with the seventeen being hauled in and forced to pose and get photographed while completely nude. {{spoiler|The photographs show up later in a tabloid.}}
* [[Fiery Redhead]] - Earl.
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* [[Secret Project Refugee Family]] - {{spoiler|Aaron, Marian, and the tenents of Grid Manor.}}
* [[Strawman News Media]] - Practically every reporter is a slavering vulture eager to drag all seventeen children kicking and screaming into the spotlight, ravage them, then pick over their corpses. ...And that's a rather ''tame'' description, really. Plenty of Strawman Religious Nuts around, too.
* [[Writer
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