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| Time Stream | ||
| The total sequence of events considered as a kind of flow. |
As far as I know, the first use of this phrase.
| “Suppose that I actually have been trying to bring these men back to life by the longest way. The chances in that event are that they will never awaken. The process is very delicate. The slightest excess of effort might upset the balance at any point of the time stream, sending them backward into the past or forward into the future independently of my will. “Perhaps that is the true explanation of my repeated failures with Sylvester and Savadan. I was unable to send them back to the right era in time because in spite of all my efforts they lost their balance in mid stream and drifted into the future instead of the past." |
| Technovelgy from Time Stream,
by John Taine. Published by Wonder Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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Here's another use of this phrase from At Your Service (1951) by Cleve Cartmill:
How then had it happened — and when? Had this planet, deserted apparently except for herself, slipped into another variant of the time stream she had known?
Compare to time line from Liners of Time (1935) by John Russell Fearn.
She put the ship on automatic and went to the bathroom mirror. She frowned, then smiled at her image. Years hadn’t gone by. If anything, she looked younger than when she had last examined herself.
('At Your Service' by Cleve Cartmill)
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