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Assembling Archaeology: Teaching, Practice and Research

attached) may still be travelling somewhere in a galaxy far, far away. In many places, Gorman’s writing style is colloquial, almost chatty. There is no real theorising in the book, and much analysis comes in the way of opinions offered fairly liberally to the reader. Gorman has many opinions and harbours considerable anger about contemporary Australian society in particular, especially as far as powerful and profit-making mining corporations, discrimination of women, and a wide array of colonising practices, both on Earth and in space, are concerned. An alternative title might therefore have been ‘The Universe according to Alice’. But that would not have made it any less appealing nor any less rewarding for the reader. Gorman has a long and exciting agenda, and Dr Space Junk vs the Universe is filled with numerous interesting, entertaining, and creative ideas about space, archaeology, and a lot of things in between (and behind) the two. My only real complaint about this book is that it lacks any images, even though many chapters cover extremely visual subjects and are firmly linked to wellknown imagery. Given some of the opinions expressed by Gorman, there is a final irony if the decision to leave out figures was influenced by commercial reasons, with one important aim being to keep costs down, be it for printing or for reproduction of the cultural property of others. At the end of the day, the point is not, however, whether or not you agree with Alice Gorman’s various perspectives and opinions on space archaeology, Australian society, and the Universe. The main point worth stressing about this book is that archaeology on Earth has come a long way in bringing about such an imaginative, insightful, and generally rich account of contemporary archaeology. Dr Space Junk vs the Universe has the unusual capacity to stimulate readers in many different and original ways.