a rift or flaw in the fabric of time that allows travel between two or more periods of time or timelines; any accidental or unexplained movement between periods of time; cf. timequake n., time storm n.
Of course, this ‘slipping of the time’ system is the easiest way out for the author.]
He thought, I’m not asleep, so I must be crazy. What was Tancredi talking about? Something about slipping back in time? I’m imagining that I’ve done just that. I think I’m in the later Roman Empire.]
No, the hypothesis of delirium might be a tough one, but it offered fewer difficulties than that of the time-slip.
Stacy had heard it all before. It brought a horrid feeling that there had been a kind of time-slip—that they had been caught back again, she and Charles, to where they were three years ago.
So even now I do not know all that lay behind the terror in that Peruvian valley. This much I learned: the Other, like Lhar and her robot, had been cast adrift by a time-slip, and thus marooned here. There was no way for it to return to its normal Time-sector. It had created the fog-wall to protect itself from the direct rays of the sun, which threatened its existence.
The scientist…has undergone a ‘time slip’ which has him answering questions before they're asked.
When I woke, it was without any idea of time. The timeslip had upset my circadian rhythms.
I said, ‘What’s happening?’ I don’t know quite what I meant by that. Some sort of a time-slip idea I think.
A tale of a young woman’s timeslip to 15th-century England.
Labyrinth is a time-slip novel with parallel plots set in the 13th century, when members of the Cathar sect became the first targets of the campaign against heresy that later became the Spanish inquisition, and on an archaeological dig in 2005.
Myla leans in. ‘Do you know anything about time slips?’ August blinks. ‘No.’ ‘Okay,’ Myla says. She seizes the ketchup, dumping it over the fries. August pulls a face, and Myla waves it off. ‘It’s this sci-fi trope where somebody gets lost in time. So, like, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Mark Twain book. Guy gets hit in the head and wakes up in Camelot. Maybe something happened to her on the train that threw her out of time.’ August frowns. ‘Like, she time traveled?’ ‘Sort of,’ Myla says thoughtfully.
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L. Sprague de Camp, "Lest Darkness Fall"
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