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"The wealth of the universe is all over your head. We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth..."
- Larry Niven
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| Downtime | ||
| Traveling back in time. |
As far as I know, the first use of this word.
| "You can see it’s a big vortex. His movement across the stream must have caused about a four century twister. Now two centuries downtime there are still atomic wars. It looks like the whirlpool snatched up some part of that period and . . . well, you can imagine.” |
| Technovelgy from The Traps of Time,
by John Baxter. Published by New Worlds in 1964 Additional resources -
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