CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART INOT MEANT TO KNOW

1. The Paw

TAKING EXCEPTION

SCIENCE AND FICTION

SCIENCE FICTION

2. The -ism That Wasn’t

IT DOES NOT PLEASE YOU

DARWIN IN THE MIDDLE

TWO WINDOWS

3. Don’t Meddle

MOVIES AND MOREAU

SORCERY

LIFE SCIENCE

PART IITHE THING IS AN ABOMINATION

4. The House of Pain

NO PAIN, NO GAIN

MOREAU 1, PRENDICK 0

PAIN IS REAL

5. Into the Lab and Onto the Slab

HOW

BUT WHY

PART IIIPOOR BRUTES

6. All the Difference

MOREAU’S MAN

PRENDICK’S GAZE

“NO!”

THE VIRAGO

7. To the Beasts You May Go

NO THRESHOLD

SELECTION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

THE VALLEY

PART IVNO ESCAPE

8. That Is the Law

WHOSE LAW?

HELL IS REAL

THE JESUS MOMENT

THE REBEL

9. Beast Monsters

THE TASTE OF BLOOD

THE STUBBORN BEAST FLESH

THE HORROR

10. Big Thinks

SUFFERING AND PHILOSOPHY

SCIENCE AND HUMANITY

Glossary

Index