elsewhen n.

(in time-travel contexts) another time

Time Travel

  • 1943 ‘A. Boucher’ Elsewhen in Astounding Science-Fiction Jan. 112/1 (title) page image Anthony Boucher bibliography

    Elsewhen.

  • 1957 A. Bester Stars My Destination in Galaxy Jan. 140/1 page image Alfred Bester bibliography

    He jaunted up the geodesic lines of space-time to an Elsewhere and an Elsewhen.

  • 1967 T. White Jewels of Elsewhen ix. 83 Ted White bibliography

    ‘I wonder who they are, and what they do here?’ ‘They asked me the time and place…’ ‘What?… They have come from elsewhen!’

  • 1974 J. Brunner Times Without Number (1981) 69 John Brunner bibliography

    Father Ramón seemed to come back to the present from a private voyage into the elsewhen.

  • 1985 C. Sagan Contact (1997) 322 Carl Sagan bibliography

    The Machine goes somewhere, she thought. It was a means of conveyance, an aperture to elsewhere…or elsewhen.

  • 1992 Tomorrow’s Books in Amazing Stories Sept. 74/1 page image

    They find instead a gateway to elsewhen.

  • 2016 E. M. Lerner Here We Go Loopedy Loop: A Brief History of Time Travel in Analog Science Fiction & Fact June 52/2 Edward M. Lerner bibliography

    James P. Hogan’s 1985 novel The Proteus Operation and Harry Turtledove’s 1992 novel The Guns of the South have factions on the losing side of (local) history making and shaping getaways to elsewhere and elsewhen.

Research requirements

antedating 1943
Earliest cite

Anthony Boucher, Elsewhen
Research History
Mike Christie submitted a cite from 1976.
Brian Ameringen submitted a 1967 cite from Ted White's The Jewels of Elsewhen.
Mike Christie submitted a 1956 cite from Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination".
Mark Shawhan located and Mike Christie confirmed a cite from a 1971 reprint of Robert Heinlein's story "Elsewhen". The original magazine publication of this story in 1941 was under another title and does not appear to contain any cites for "elsewhen". Rick Hauptmann then checked the 1953 Fantasy Press edition of the collection "Assignment in Eternity", which contains this story, and confirmed that the story bears the title "Elsewhen".
Mike Christie submitted a cite from a reprint of Carl Sagan's 1985 "Contact".
Mike Christie submitted a 1943 cite from the title of Anthony Boucher's "Elsewhen".
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2016 cite from Edward M. Lerner.

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