Defending Science from the element of society that thinks that Science=Magic, and Magic=Evil. Setting of author's choice. I'm thinking of the mother of a friend of my son's, who asked me not to let her kids watch the Harry Potter movies, because Magic was from Satan. Didn't help to tell her that the Magic was a tool, and that the Light defeated the Darkness. There were other discussions that went nowhere as well, but as my beloved put it "there's only so much you can argue with a person who doesn't believe in evolution."

In Daughters of the Apocalypse, what caused the Apocalypse? Was it environmental destruction, or science of the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" variety? How much of that society is anti-science, because it did not save them from catastrophe?

In Clay of Life, Yossele is a golem. If the same Name was written and slipped into an android's mouth, would it also be granted the Breath of Life?