time fault n.

We've got to get to the edge of one of these blocks that go swinging through time, the edge of what Professor Minott calls a ‘time fault’, and watch it! When the shifts come, we explore as quickly as we can. We've no great likelihood, perhaps, of getting back exactly to our own period.

I intend to camp along a time fault and cross over whenever a time shift brings a Norse settlement in sight.

The whole planet was soon informed that it was a Time Fault which had made six months seem like the winking of an eye.

Look for no trace here of the mad creator of Papa Schimmelhorn and his gnurrs; but discover a new aspect of Bretnor as he reveals an unsuspected symbolism behind the classic science fiction theme of the shifting time-fault.

For some reason, that basement door is in a time fault. People from now can go through it into the future and come back.

The planet possessed a strange time fault. Through it, a host of Berserkers were attacking!

What happens when an ordinary family builds an ordinary house on an interdimensional time fault? Time twitches & fun begins!

Got off the plane in San Francisco, caught a Greyhound south, curled up to sleep, and the San Andreas time-fault let loose. It was the first big timequake and I woke up three years later.