that creates a time warp; that moves (something) through time; (also) of or relating to a time warp
He wished too that he might adapt his fourth-dimensional infinite velocity principle to the beam—that space-time warping form of energy which had given him instant contact with his ten-brain unit.]
At last they stepped into the chamber which housed the Time-warping machine.
Mu was the land of a great scientific race that had devised the time-warping amulet.
Its method of moving my ship physically was a by-product of the time[-]warping engine. By slipping the ship a few minutes or hours back in time—in relation to the daily clock—I moved westward. In effect, the Earth rotated under me.
‘We have something new…and according to the Defense Department people very promising. It’s a time-warping construct that sets up a field which coagulates the—’ ‘Just equip me.’
Grimes was glad that he had ordered the time-warping device to be warmed up before the transition from one universe to the other had been made.
Chiba has a fine old time in Time Slip, too long like all Japanese movies, but eminently better time-warping stuff than The Final Countdown.
Benford is a writer of considerable stylistic range and sophistication, and he applies all of it here, using memory, time-warping devices, actualized surrealism, and so forth.
He had conquered giant robots and time-warping devices that punched holes in the very fabric of the space-time continuum.
antedating 1940
Nelson S. Bond (in two separate stories)
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