1. What will happen when Max goes back to 33,019 B.C. to see Eve I?

2. Some paleontologists think the first wave of human migration from Asia to North America occurred over 100,000 years ago. How would this affect the hideout in 33,019 B.C.?

3. Why do Max, Eve II, and Sylvan II each experience time the same way in chaos, even though all around them are people who are shifting and changing, as well as appearing and disappearing?

4. Read Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths" and compare its ideas to those in Strange Attractors. What notions of bifurcation do they have in common? Where do they differ? Why would Sleator slip in a little reference to Borges's short story in his novel Strange Attractors with the phrase "individual forking paths?"

5. Write a story about what Max does after he builds a...