Table of Contents

IntroductionPart 1: Battling Babylon
Chapter 1: Manticore
Chapter 2: Stargate SG-1
Chapter 3: Transformers 2: Revenge of the FallenPart 2: Of Artifacts and Ancient Aliens
Chapter 4: Ancient Aliens
Chapter 5: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Chapter 6: SmallvillePart 3: Cyborg Sites
Chapter 7: Battlestar Galactica
Chapter 8: PrometheusEnvoyWorks Cited
Index

About the Author

Shawn Malley is Professor in the Department of English, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He is author of 'From Archaeology to Spectacle in Victorian Britain: The Case of Assyria, 1845–1854' (Ashgate Press, 2012).

Reviews

'[A] provocative and fastidiously researched monograph... Invoking such heavy-hitters as Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and Homi Bhabha, Excavating the Future is best for scholars or advanced students already acquainted with a fair amount of theory. Nevertheless, Malley maps rich territory at the intersection of literature, media studies, history, and geopolitics.'
Pedro Ponce, SFRA Review

'This volume should prove to be of interest not only to SF scholars but to film, television, and general popular-culture scholars as well...Not only does this study convey SF’s enormous potential for social influence and criticism, but it also captures the zeitgeist of the early 21st century, when we are poised at a unique time in history for unthinkable change.'
James Hamby, Fafnir-Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research