uptime adv.
esp. in time-travel contexts: in, into, or toward the future; cf. downtime adv.
Time Travel
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1972
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James Tiptree, Jr.
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And which by a million-to-one chance shot young Dov Rapelle uptime into the lethal half-hour when a coronary artery ballooned and ruptured as he lay alone in a strange city.
Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket in Fantastic Aug. 70/2 -
1972
Poul Anderson
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He would take certain stamps and coins uptime and sell them to dealers.
There Will Be Time (1973) 51 -
1978
Crawford Kilian
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He was…born 985 BC… Tested four years ago at age sixteen, and brought uptime…for his education.
Empire of Time (1985) 3 -
1983
John Varley
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Uptime, it was already being prepared.
Millennium ii. 25 -
1984
Poul Anderson
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Science fiction, of course, generally turns uptime, toward the future.
Discovery of Past in Past Times 186 -
1997
John Kessel
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Smuggling a dinosaur uptime would be tricky.
Corrupting Dr. Nice (1998) 69 -
2007
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Gene Wolfe
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I’m not allowed to bring you into your future, you understand—uptime into my own period. It’s against regulations.
Green Glass in Asimov’s Science Fiction Apr.–May 173
Research requirements
antedating 1972
Earliest cite
James Tiptree
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1985 reprint of Crawford Kilian's "The Empire of Time".We would like cites of any date from other sources.
Fred Galvin found a reference that suggests the term is used in the sense 'in or towards the past' in Ian Wallace's "Croyd Spacetime Maneouvres" series; we would like to check these books to verify this use.
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