Time And Poul Anderson II

Jack Finney wrote evocative nostalgic time travel short stories and one of his collections was called The Clock Of Time.

In Poul Anderson's There Will Be Time, a clock on a mantel ticks while wind flows past like a river. I have quoted that passage three times. See here. See also Two Grandfather Clocks.

Anderson's Genesis begins:

"The story is of a man, a woman, and a world. But ghosts pass through it, and gods. Time does, which is more mysterious than any of these."

-Poul Anderson, Genesis (New York, 2001), PART ONE, 1, p. 3.

See GENESIS And Time.

This opening paragraph backs up my statement that time is important in Poul Anderson's works. See Time And Poul Anderson.

I agree that time is more mysterious than men, women, worlds, ghosts or gods.

Time dilation hardly matters in Genesis because the effectively immortal post-organic intelligences can contemplate mathematics or aesthetics or can switch themselves off during long slower than light interstellar journeys. Nevertheless, time dilation helps. And billions of years elapse while consciousness evolves. We see only a beginning, a genesis.