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Usage examples of uptime.

For a year or two the popular media had been full of articles about the Boskopoids as Homo superior, despite the unarguable fact that they had died out as a distinct group on all chronoplanes uptime from Luvah.

Uptime Chronologic Patrol Ship, commanded by Koffield, that survived the attack of the Intruders at Circum Central.

And every day, a thousand Trainable endos, Climbers, came uptime to help prepare Earth against Doomsday.

So they pay us a fortune, and pay the forgers even more for phony papers, just to live in some uptime dump full of rats.

Alamitos stood about where Santa Monica did fourteen thousand years uptime, but it was well inland and sheltered from the sea by a five-kilometer strip of dunes, chaparral, and scrub pine.

Both uptime and downtime ends of wormhole are guarded by Chronologic Patrol ships.

They had sent and received the standard arrival signal and mirror reply to the Chronologic Patrol ship on station, here on the uptime end of the timeshaft.

The only other visible object, aside from the stars in the sky, was a far-off dot of light that was the uptime Chronologic Patrol ship, one of the uptime-downtime pair guarding this wormhole.

They held their breath a bit harder and longer than normal as they passed the Chronologic Patrol ship on uptime station.

A group of half-grown boys in Frontier Town-- aw, nuts, looks like the uptime abandonees just cut class again-dashed out of a restaurant directly in his path, yelling and whooping in an excess of energy.

He wished desperately he could leave the Down Time and share his news with Ianira now, but he had several hours left on his shift and she would be in the middle of a session with an uptime graduate student, one of many who consulted-and paid-her as a singular, primary source.

Skeeter figured it beat having some uptime type throw a fit in the real downtime Denver, were more modern attitudes publicly and forcefully expressed would get a tourist into hot water fast.

Timeshaft Wormhole, transiting from downtime to uptime, past to future.