All throughout the book, Dickson talks about how entropy (The disorder of a system) DECREASES as time goes on. This was his explanation for why the "time storm" was happening. He said that the problem was that there were small but numerous regions of space where entropy increased instead of decreasing as it should. The natural decrease running into the unnatural increase was causing the fabric of space to tear, he said.

But disorder actually INCREASES with time. Increasing disorder is natural, decreasing disorder is unnatural. He obviously just got the two mixed up in his head, and wrote the entire book with this incorrect perception of entropy. The whole book is backwards.

...And yeah, I know that this sounds nitpicky, but if you think about it, this is sort of like getting gravity mixed up and saying that it makes things fall up instead of down. Dickson was trying to make his book sound all extra scientific and stuff, but he got it completely backwards.