Chloé Germaine is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and a co-director of the Manchester Game Centre.

[The Dark Matter of Children's Fantastika Literature] is a huge achievement: the culmination of the author’s immersion in a field for a significant time … It is refreshing to read a book that is determined to show how texts ‘matter’ in all senses of this word. [It] contributes to our field by reading ‘literary criticism, philosophy, and science through one another and through the novels’ it encounters. I enjoyed reading it very much.

• Introduction: The ontoethics of entanglement in Fantastika1. Occult materialism: The landscapes of classic fantasy2. Animate worlds: Magical encounters in contemporary fantasy3. Minds, machines, and ghosts: Consciousness in science fiction stories4. Precarious interdependence: The oceans of the ecoweird5. Speak for the trees: The material politics of climate futures6. Postscript: Thoughts on the reading experimentIndex

Chloé Germaine is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and a co-director of the Manchester Game Centre.

[The Dark Matter of Children's Fantastika Literature] is a huge achievement: the culmination of the author’s immersion in a field for a significant time … It is refreshing to read a book that is determined to show how texts ‘matter’ in all senses of this word. [It] contributes to our field by reading ‘literary criticism, philosophy, and science through one another and through the novels’ it encounters. I enjoyed reading it very much.

• Introduction: The ontoethics of entanglement in Fantastika1. Occult materialism: The landscapes of classic fantasy2. Animate worlds: Magical encounters in contemporary fantasy3. Minds, machines, and ghosts: Consciousness in science fiction stories4. Precarious interdependence: The oceans of the ecoweird5. Speak for the trees: The material politics of climate futures6. Postscript: Thoughts on the reading experimentIndex

Chloé Germaine is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and a co-director of the Manchester Game Centre.

[The Dark Matter of Children's Fantastika Literature] is a huge achievement: the culmination of the author’s immersion in a field for a significant time … It is refreshing to read a book that is determined to show how texts ‘matter’ in all senses of this word. [It] contributes to our field by reading ‘literary criticism, philosophy, and science through one another and through the novels’ it encounters. I enjoyed reading it very much.

• Introduction: The ontoethics of entanglement in Fantastika1. Occult materialism: The landscapes of classic fantasy2. Animate worlds: Magical encounters in contemporary fantasy3. Minds, machines, and ghosts: Consciousness in science fiction stories4. Precarious interdependence: The oceans of the ecoweird5. Speak for the trees: The material politics of climate futures6. Postscript: Thoughts on the reading experimentIndex