Chapter 1 Why Childhood Ex Machina?

Chapter 2 Franken-Education, or When Science Runs Amok

Chapter 3 The Monstrous Voice: M.R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts

Chapter 5 Through the Black Mirror: Innocence, Abuse, and Justice in “Shut Up and Dance”

Chapter 6 Your Android Ain’t Funky (or Robots Can’t Find the Good Foot): Race, Power, and Children in Otherworldly Imaginations

Chapter 7 Tension, Sensation, and Pedagogy: Depictions of Childhood’s Struggle in Saga and Paper Girls

Chapter 8 A Utopian Mirror: Reflections from the Future of Childhood and Education in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Island

Chapter 9 Filling the Mind: Cortical Knowledge Uploads, Didactic Downloads and the Problem of Learning in the Future

Chapter 10 Heretic Gnosis: Education, Children, and the Problem of Knowing Otherwise

Chapter 11 “Life is a Game, So Fight for Survival”: The Neoliberal Logics of Educational Colonialism within the Battle Royale Franchise

Chapter 12 Children and Pedagogy Between Science and Fiction