Digging Holes in Popular Culture: Archaeology and science fiction edited by Miles Russell, Oxbow, £18, ISBN 1842170635
READING this entertaining, if at times annoying, collection of papers I was reminded of Arthur C. Clarke’s dictum that if a scientist can imagine a future technology, it will happen. If, as several authors argue here, archaeology and science fiction share so much (archaeology, says Lynette Russell of Monash University, “plays a vital role” in Star Trek), perhaps informed recreations of extinct societies, by definition, were once true. It’s an idea that would enliven the academic canon.
Editor Miles Russell seems to believe…
