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Several people have asked for a copy of the reading list for my class on religion and science fiction, and so I am making a copy of the syllabus available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have also added a link to a plainer version of it on the page I created some years ago for the course<\/a>, even though I do not have time to maintain that site any longer.<\/p>\n

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