What is "timelines"

Usage examples of "timelines".

It was a representation of the major timelines of the Taladoran Confederation, including the major temporal portals that interconnect them.

Others come and go intermittently, eventually closing forever as the two timelines drift apart.

Not just the esoteric subjects necessary to operate successfully across the hundreds of timelines then open to the Confederation, but also the kindergarten things every Taladoran learned before he could walk.

They usually visualize the timelines as a series of recordstrips laid side by side, each stretching neatly from the very beginnings of time into the infinite future.

I looked at it, the timelines of the Confederation were akin to the strands of conductor in a telephone cable that has lain too long under the city streets.

You will note that these two timelines form an interdependent cluster with a theoretical third line, one to which we do not have access.

Then it was a few hundred easy miles to the portal that would take us to the Association of Rivan City-States, one of the lesser timelines of the Confederation.

After a few years of existence, the precarious balance will tip one way or the other and the two timelines will diverge from each other.

They should have developed as independent timelines, with no common heritage at all.

Just because my line grew people with two arms, two legs, and a head, why should all the other timelines copy us so closely?

How many cross-connections between timelines are there to be found in that vast maelstrom of poison clouds?

You will be able to guard the Moon adequately on all your timelines, but the Sun, the stars, and the planets will remain forever beyond your capabilities.

Felira and Graf Transtas had passed through eleven timelines making good their escape.

Whatever the mechanism that seeds the timelines with life forms, it was out of kilter here.

Paratime, then there must be other such groupings, macroclusters of timelines unrelated to our own.