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- noun Plural form of
timeslip .
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Examples
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People are horrified to find themselves experiencing "timeslips"--disconcerting encounters with people, places, and events from other times.
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND by Brian W. Aldiss (Fawcett Crest 1975) 2007
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(Pier Pressure: Six, Evelyn and Max Miller as played by Roy Hudd) (Night Thoughts: Seven, Ace and Hex in a confusing affair of timeslips and secrets) (Time Works: Eight, Charley and C'rizz between the tick and the tock)
Three more from Big Finish nwhyte 2008
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The danger all writers of timeslips face is the risk that the reader will find one narrative strand more interesting than the other, fatally unbalancing their reading experience.
Archive 2008-02-01 Tim Stretton 2008
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The danger all writers of timeslips face is the risk that the reader will find one narrative strand more interesting than the other, fatally unbalancing their reading experience.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008
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The timeslips always move him to narratively convenient points, which makes them seem too obtrusively like the lazy-ass plot devices they truly are.
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND by Brian W. Aldiss (Fawcett Crest 1975) 2007
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Lawson soon finds himself having strange dreams about the Colosseum--and even waking timeslips!
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Our hero just skims via timeslips over the surface of events, paying a lot more attention to his own reactions than to what actually happens.
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND by Brian W. Aldiss (Fawcett Crest 1975) 2007
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And all of his encounters with Frankenstein or the Monster only serve as occasions for him to pontificate about the science that produced the nuclear weapons that produced the timeslips in the first place.
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND by Brian W. Aldiss (Fawcett Crest 1975) 2007
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She tells us how we can become more conscious of our movement through different timelines, and why it is that Whitley is beginning to notice timeslips more and more.
WN.com - Articles related to BP inks deal to save turtles from oil spill 2010
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Whitley is beginning to notice timeslips more and more.
WN.com - Articles related to BP inks deal to save turtles from oil spill 2010
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