Andrew Weiner

English 3050 Online: Reading Guides

Distant Signals
Discussion Questions
1. How does Weiner establish that the young man, Smith, is alien?

2. What kind of cultural viewpoint (or technology) could lie behind a statement like "Of course you can repeat the past"?

3. What is it that the story is subjecting to the process of estrangement? How?

4. Is the recreation of a twenty-year-old series another sort of extrapolation?

5. Does the plot of Stranger in Town have anything to do with the theme of "Distant Signals"?

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