Discussion Questions
1. What is the connection between a World
War I battlefield and the elegant abstractions of physics? What role did
science play in the war?
2. Is information prevented from getting
in to the front, as it seems not to be getting out? Are the men at the
front interested in events in the outside world?
3. Could the story be read as an example
of historical realism, rather than SF? How would such a reading differ
from a science fictional one.
4. A red shift occurs just outside the Schwarzschild
radius. What happens to time at the same point?
5. It has been suggested that metaphors
do not merely point out similarities but may sometimes construct them.
Do the metaphoric links in the story reveal resemblances or create them? |
