Introduction: Strange stories and the descent of mind
Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny : fantastic evolution and fairy science in The water-babies
Developmental nonsense in the Alice tales
Orality, print, and evolution in the Just so stories
Becoming animal in The island of Doctor Moreau
The machinate literary mammal : Samuel Butler's strange stories
Exotic geography, natural religion, and the liberal case against eugenics in Flatland
Deep time and the socialist utopia
Coda: Shallowing the past.