elsewhen adv.
(in time-travel contexts) at or to another point in time
Time Travel
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1940 Bombardment in Reverse in Astounding Science-Fiction Feb. 125 (caption)
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Norman L. Knight
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βBy means of the beltβ¦I will go into the future a bit.β Whether that was where he went or not, he went elsewhere or elsewhen.
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1953 Three Hearts & Three Lions in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Oct. 84 (synopsis of previous part)
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Poul Anderson
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His world suddenly exploded, and he awoke elsewhere and elsewhen.
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1965 Corridors of Time in Amazing Stories May 55/2
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Poul Anderson
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Warden forces are concentrated elsewhen. We maintain only a few agents like myself in this century.
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1984 Far Side of Bell-Shaped Curve in Omni Mar. 102/3
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Robert Silverberg
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Merely whirling Ilsabet off elsewhen would achieve nothing.
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1989 Dragon Magazine June 68
You'll travel backward and forward through time, so be advised that some of the folk you meet and places you visit exist only at certain times and not βelsewhenβ.
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1992 Imzadi i. 3
Peter David
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The man in the greenish yellow shirt, whose mind was elsewhere and elsewhen.
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2005 Algebraist ii. 136
Iain M. Banks
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We need something different. Elsewhen or elsestuff or elsewhere.
Research requirements
antedating 1940
Earliest cite
Norman L. Knight, in Astounding
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