TIME GLOSSARY
From Dorland’s Theory
CLARITY – Clear or good understanding of a temporal locus, pattern, event, Outcome or Consequence.
CONSEQUENCE – An undesired result achieved by a temporal Transformation – Usually referring to the negative (i.e.) Sometimes certain Consequences must be accepted in order to achieve a desired Outcome.
CONVOLUTION – The relative difficulty or complexity of a given temporal event or condition.
DEEP NEXUS – Sometimes called a “Void” – A crucial, significant Nexus Point where radical alteration of the time line is possible.
DENSITY – A relative term describing factor counts in temporal events.
FACTOR – An element contributing to convolution in temporal events.
FINALITY – A catastrophic Grand Imperative (like the Cuthulu asteroid strike that led to the eradication of the dinosaurs and other life.)
FREE RADICAL – A dangerous, erratic variable in the course of temporal events – usually only existing within a Deep Nexus.
GREAT VOID – An interminable shadow or Penumbra cast by a Grand Imperative.
HAZE – Obscurity in the understanding of a temporal situation or event.
IMPERATIVE – An event in Time which must happen – Usually a natural event. A Grand Imperative is a natural event of special significance. Some Grand Imperatives can become a Finality.
INEVITABILITY – A progression of events that is inexorable and unalterable.
INITIATOR – A person directly responsible for a new Time Meridian (Like Mohammed, or Christ). A Prime Mover of great significance.
LEVER – A secondary contributor to movement in a series of events.
MERIDIAN – An established line of temporal events on the continuum.
NEXUS POINT – A point of connection, intersection or branching of one or more Meridians in the Time continuum.
NODE – A specific point on a Time Meridian.
OUTCOME – A desired result achieved by a temporal Transformation – Usually referring to the positive.
PARADOX – Time’s way of correcting errors in the Time continuum. Paradox is a real force, and quite dangerous. It kills or erases people and objects from the Time Meridian when unaccountable complications arise from their actions. A Paradox is NOT simply a thorny problem, it is a real effect and force of annihilation. A kind of “Anti-Time”
PENUMBRA – The shadow of influence on future events cast by an Imperative.
POINT OF ORIGIN – The temporal locus where a person or object becomes a Prime Mover.
PRIME MOVER – A primary causative lever or agent for an event – usually a person but sometimes an object.
PUSH POINT – A moment of insignificance that gives rise to a key event on a Time Meridian. Often associated with a Prime Mover.
QUANTUM KARMA – The influence of causality on a Time Meridian. Each moment on the Meridian affects the next, and certain Prime Movers accumulate an aura of Quantum Karma around them that also has profound effects on the configuration of future moments in Time.
RADICAL TRANSFORMATION – A catastrophic alteration of the Temporal Condition.
TEMPORAL CONDITION – The matrix, pattern or state of affairs in a given time period.
TRANSFORMATION – Any change in a Time Meridian that alters a future Temporal Condition.
TRANSFORMER – A person who causes a Transformation.
VARIATION – A subtle change in a Time Meridian that does not significantly alter Temporal Conditions.
WILLFUL EVENT - Events resulting from decisions or actions taken by human beings
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The Meridian Series
Novels By John Schettler
ForeWord Magazine’s
“Book of the Year”
2002 Silver Medal Winner for Science Fiction
Book I
Meridian – A Novel In Time
The adventure begins on the eve of the greatest experiment
ever attempted—Time Travel.
As the project team meets for their final mission briefing, the last member, arriving late, brings startling news. Catastrophe threatens and the fate of the Western World hangs in the balance. But a visitor from another time arrives bearing clues that will carry the hope of countless generations yet to be born.
Book II
Nexus Point
In this compelling sequel to the award winning novel Meridian, the project team members slowly come to the realization that a “Time War” is being waged by unseen adversaries in the future.
The quest for an ancient fossil leads to an amazing discovery hidden in the Jordanian desert. A mysterious group of assassins plot to decide the future course of history, just one battle in a devious campaign that will span the Meridians of time, both future and past
Book III
Touchstone
When Nordhausen follows a hunch and launches a secret time jump mission on his own, he uncovers an operation being run by unknown adversaries from the future. The incident has dramatic repercussions for Kelly Ramer, who’s place in the time line is again threatened by paradox. Kelly’s fate is somehow linked to an ancient Egyptian artifact, once famous the world over, and now a forgotten slab of stone. The result is a harrowing mission to Egypt during the time frame of Napoleon’s 1799 invasion.
Other work by John Schettler
Taklamakan
The Land Of No Return
It was one of those moments on the cusp of time, when Tando Ghazi Khan, a simple trader of tea and spice, leads a caravan to the edge of the great desert, and becomes embroiled in the struggle that will decide the fate of an empire and shake all under heaven and earth.
Steamboat Slough
A Mystery
There was something under the ice at Steamboat Slough, something lost, buried in the frozen wreckage where the children feared to play. For Daniel Edwards, returning to the old mission site near the Yukon where he taught school a decade past, the wreck of an old steamboat becomes more than a tale told by the village elders. In a mystery weaving the shifting imagery of a dream with modern psychology and ancient myth, Daniel struggles to solve the riddle of the old wreck and free himself from the haunting embrace of a nightmare older than history itself.
Wild Zone
Science Fiction – The Dharman Series
A shadow has fallen over earth’s latest and most promising colony prospect in the Dharma system. When a convulsive solar flux event disables communications with the Safe Zone, special agent Timothy Scott Ryan is rushed to the system on a Navy frigate to investigate. He soon becomes embroiled in a mystery that threatens the course of evolution itself as a virulent new organism has targeted mankind as a new host.
Sequel: Mother Heart
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