time-slip v.

Time was slipping disasterously! [sic] Bodenland found himself timeslipped from the year 2020 to the year 1816, but even there slippages were occurring from season to season while Bodenland pursued a man named Victor Frankenstein and his creature stalked the Frigid Lands of another time and place! [Ibid. 38/1] A disasterous [sic] Last War has ruptured time and space and Joseph Bodenland finds his Texas ranch of 2020 timeslipped into another era. It is not the first such slippage, but this time while he is out in his Felder (and atomically-fuelled automobile) the slippage ceases and he finds himself trapped in the time and land to which the ranch was briefly transported.

The nearest any of the Embassy projects get to even fantasy is in Heaven Sent, a kind of updating of Peter Ustinov's Vice-Versa (1947), in which a youth time-slips back into the youth of his parents.

Eliot Fintushel shows us why you can't be too casual with your chrono-monitor when time-slipping down causal ravines and negotiating with transcats and womporfs.

Instead it was a STOP hovership, homing in on a time-slipped expedition out of tenth century Burma that had become badly tangled in a twentieth century war. Love took an active part in the ensuing firefight between Special Temporal Operations and a full battalion from the 308th NVA division.

A rich, poignant reflection on landscape, change and memory, the book has its 1950s hero timeslip nightly to become the imaginary friend of a lonely Victorian orphan, watching her grow up and put childhood behind her in the space of what for the devastated Tom is only a few summer weeks, with an unforgettable climactic set piece (skating upriver to Ely in the great frost of 1895) capped by an affecting final reunion in Tom’s own time with the old lady in whose memories he has been lodging.

There’s no technology involved, no chin-stroke wrestling with the Grandfather Paradox; never once do we discover how Dana time-slips, let alone why it is that she can take objects or other people along with her; Dana’s ability to time-slip simply is.

Turned out, the cornucopia of science had continued, even accelerated, while I was getting timeslipped into 2037. The technoculture never quit.