The city and the sun -- The heat death of the sun at the dawn of the Anthropocene -- Energy systems and narrative systems in Charles Dickens's Bleak House -- The renewable energies of Our Mutual Friend -- John Ruskin's alternative energy -- Personal fantasy, natural limits : Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Joseph Conrad : energy, entropy, and the fictions of empire -- Evolutionary energy and the future : Henry Maudsley and H.G. Wells