Dr. Surekha Davies is a British author, speaker, and historian of science, art, and ideas. Her first book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human, won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history from the Journal of the History of Ideas and the Roland H. Bainton Prize in History and Theology. She has written essays and reviews about the histories of biology, anthropology, and monsters in the Times Literary Supplement, Nature, Science, and Aeon.

"Wide-ranging, weirdly fascinating."

• List of Illustrations Introduction1 • On the Ecology of Monsters 2 • Human or Animal?3 • Race-Nations4 • Race-Nations II 5 • Gender, Sex, and Monstrous Births 6 • Monstrous Performance and Display7 • Gods, Magic, and the Supernatural8 • Machines9 • Extraterrestrials10 • Monstrofuturism EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Dr. Surekha Davies is a British author, speaker, and historian of science, art, and ideas. Her first book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human, won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history from the Journal of the History of Ideas and the Roland H. Bainton Prize in History and Theology. She has written essays and reviews about the histories of biology, anthropology, and monsters in the Times Literary Supplement, Nature, Science, and Aeon.

"Wide-ranging, weirdly fascinating."

• List of Illustrations Introduction1 • On the Ecology of Monsters 2 • Human or Animal?3 • Race-Nations4 • Race-Nations II 5 • Gender, Sex, and Monstrous Births 6 • Monstrous Performance and Display7 • Gods, Magic, and the Supernatural8 • Machines9 • Extraterrestrials10 • Monstrofuturism EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Dr. Surekha Davies is a British author, speaker, and historian of science, art, and ideas. Her first book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human, won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history from the Journal of the History of Ideas and the Roland H. Bainton Prize in History and Theology. She has written essays and reviews about the histories of biology, anthropology, and monsters in the Times Literary Supplement, Nature, Science, and Aeon.

"Wide-ranging, weirdly fascinating."

• List of Illustrations Introduction1 • On the Ecology of Monsters 2 • Human or Animal?3 • Race-Nations4 • Race-Nations II 5 • Gender, Sex, and Monstrous Births 6 • Monstrous Performance and Display7 • Gods, Magic, and the Supernatural8 • Machines9 • Extraterrestrials10 • Monstrofuturism EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex