Crawford Kilian

downtime adj.	1978 C. Kilian Empire of Time (1985) 27 Manned space probes might have been sent out, but were not. Too much evidence existed to suggest that Doomsday had been caused by alien intruders, who might still be in the neighborhood. Attracting their attention might lead to their discovery of the downtime chronoplanes.
downtime adv.	1978 C. Kilian Empire of Time (1985) 180 You know, of course, about the new chronoplanes they’ve discovered far downtime, in the Permian? Four of them so far.
downtime adv.	1978 C. Kilian Empire of Time (1985) 38 Downtime, the air was clean, the water sweet.
super-weapon n.	1978 C. Kilian Empire of Time (1985) 125 No alien invaders would pounce out of space. There was no need now for superweapons against Outsiders.
uptime adj.	1978 C. Kilian Empire of Time (1985) 45 The New Orc Times was typically Colonial, from its punny title to its trivial content. Most of the paper was reprinted from uptime media; by the time Pierce waded through all two hundred pages, he had absorbed most of yesterday’s Earth news but learned little of local events.
uptime adv.	1978 C. Kilian Empire of Time (1985) 3 He was…born 985 BC… Tested four years ago at age sixteen, and brought uptime…for his education.