All Our Wrong Todays (Mastai) - Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions
We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available; in the meantime, use our LitLovers talking points to start a discussion question for All the Wrong Todays...then take off on your own:

1. Talk about the ways in which All Our Wrong Todays' alternate 2016 is similar or dissimilar to the 2016 we know. Which reality do you prefer? How do you view the level of advanced technology in the first 2016? Consider the improvements it makes to life, as well as the ways in which it detracts from life? Overall, how would you characterize the hyper-technological world—as utopian or dystopian?

2. What could possibly go wrong? Tom Barren travels back to 1965, the year the Goettreider Engine (get the play on the name?) was invented. Why does his presence cause the machine to go haywire?

3. What light does Elan Mastai's book shine of the problems and paradoxes of time travel?

4. How do the "Tom Barrens" differ from one another in the alternate timelines?

5. And then there's Penelope. What do you think of her?

6. What does Tom learn by the end of the book? What insights does he gain? How about you? What insights have you gained—regarding what it means to be human, the importance of family, and the power of love?

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