Dr Space Junk vs The Universe

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Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction

Winner of the 2019 John Mulvaney Book Prize by the Australian Archaeological Association. 


Mark & Evette Moran Nib People's Choice Prize 2019

Shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2020

Shortlisted for the Mark and Evette Moran NIB Literary Award 2019

Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2019: Nonfiction


Australian Book Review's Books of the Year 2019
(read more here)

Going boldly forth as a pioneer in the fledgling field
of space archaeology, Dr Alice Gorman (aka Dr Space Junk) turns the common
perception of archaeology as an exploration of the ancient on its head. Her
captivating inquiry into the most modern and daring of technologies spanning
some 60 years — a mere speck in cosmic terms — takes the reader on a journey
which captures the relics of space forays and uncovers the cultural value of
detritus all too readily dismissed as junk.


In this book, she takes a physical journey through the
solar system and beyond, and a conceptual journey into human interactions with
space. Her tools are artefacts, historical explorations, the occasional
cocktail recipe, and the archaeologist's eye applied not only to the past, but
the present and future as well.


Erudite and playful, Dr
Space Junk revea