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1. What is the history of the development of the scientific method? Why is it believable for Clarke to write a Jesuit character as an astrophysicist?

2. Why is science fiction writing optimistic by nature, even though seminal works in the genre are pessimistic? What examples can you find and discuss?

3. Create a model of the buried archive, as you think it could have been made. Your model can be a sculpture of the archival building, or a visual or audio sampling of the archival materials. How will you choose what media to use to make your model? Will your archive be for...

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