nowhen adv.
(in time-travel contexts): in or at no time
OED records the sense ‘at no time; never’ from 1767, labelled ‘Chiefly regional and literary’.
Time Travel
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1982
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Tom Cummins
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Otherwise you'll phase out in the middle of nowhere. Then you'll really be nowhere. And nowhen.
Dancer in the Ruins in Amazing Stories June 109 -
1991
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Paul M. Grunwell
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I began the hours of darkness thinking about the [time] machine; about where I went wrong. I've slipped into a crack in time; I'm nowhen any more.
Relocation in Interzone Apr. 39/2 -
2013
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Norman Spinrad
Railsea takes place on some planet, somewhere, somewhen—or rather nowhere and nowhen except on a purely literary ‘plane’ in Miéville’s for the most part purely literary multiverse.
On Books in Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr.–May 186/2
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