ABSTRACT
Chapter Seven, “The material past: books, libraries, and museums,” explores libraries and books in Buffy, Game of Thrones, Westworld, and Doctor Who as well as the future of books and the role of scriptures in a digital world. Colleigh Stein contributes a section on the idea of “canon” and how speculative television and fan culture are changing our ideas of what that means. Ultimately, the chapter asks how our digital world has introduced the normalcy of flexible texts that can always be rewritten or altered, and how that changes our sense of “scripture” or religious “truth.”
