Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Drill,
... Baby, Drill: Extraction Ecologies, Futurity, and the Provincial Realist Novel -- "Mine-Ridden": Nostromo -- "The Red Deeps, Where the Buried Joy Seemed Still to Hover": The Mill on the Floss -- "To Teem with Life": Jane Rutherford: or, The Miners' Strike -- "Country of the Old Pits": Hard Times -- "The Habit of the Mine": Sons and Lovers -- Chapter 2. Down and Out: Adventure Narrative, Extraction, and the Resource Frontier -- "A Great Neighbourhood for Gold-Mines": Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands -- "A Mine of Suggestion": Treasure Island -- "The Secret Stores of the Empire": Montezuma's Daughter -- "Trading, Hunting, Fighting, or Mining": King Solomon's Mines -- "To Tear Treasure Out of the Bowels of the Land": Heart of Darkness -- Chapter 3. Worldbuilding Meets Terraforming: Energy, Extraction, and Speculative Fiction -- "Natural Energetic Agencies": The Coming Race -- "We Do Not Fight for a Piece of Diamond": "Sultana's Dream" -- "A Man from Another Planet": News from Nowhere -- "Unpleasant Creatures from Below": The Time Machine -- "Riddles in the Dark": The Hobbit -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index Read More