Shaw and Science Fiction

by Wolf, Milton T.

• ISBN13: 9780271016818
• ISBN10: 0271016817
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

NOTICES	ix
FOREWORD: SHAW AND SCIENCE FICTION	1	(10)
Milton T. Wolf
G.B.S.: REFURBISHING THE TIN WOODMAN: SCIENCE FICTION WITH A HEART, A BRAIN, AND THE NERVE!	11	(8)
Ray Bradbury
SHAW'S SCIENCE FICTION ON THE BOARDS	19	(20)
Ben P. Indick
WITKACY AND SHAW'S STAGE STATUES	39	(14)
Elwira M. Grossman
SHAW'S UTOPIAS	53	(12)
J.L. Wisenthal
UTOPIAS	65	(16)
Bernard Shaw
EVOLUTIONARY MACHINERY: FORESHADOWINGS OF SCIENCE FICTION IN BERNARD SHAW'S DRAMAS	81	(16)
Jeffrey M. Wallmann
BERNARD SHAW'S FANTASY ISLAND: SIMPLETON OF THE UNEXPECTED ISLES	97	(10)
Rodelle Weintraub
ON HIS SHOULDERS: SHAW'S INFLUENCE ON CLARKE'S CHILDHOOD'S END	107	(12)
Elizabeth Anne Hull
RAY BRADBURY'S BERNARD SHAW	119	(14)
John R. Pfeiffer
LAST MEN AND FIRST WOMEN: THE DYNAMICS OF LIFE EXTENSION IN SHAW AND HEINLEIN	133	(22)
George Slusser
TROPICS OF A DESIRABLE OXYMORON: THE RADICAL SUPERMAN IN BACK TO METHUSELAH	155	(10)
John Barnes
SHAW FOR THE UTOPIANS, CAPEK FOR THE ANTI-UTOPIANS	165	(20)
Julie A. Sparks
SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY IN BACK TO METHUSELAH AND LAST AND FIRST MEN	185	(14)
Susan Stone-Blackburn
SKEPTICAL SPECULATION AND BACK TO METHUSELAH	199	(16)
Tom Shippey
BACK TO METHUSELAH: AN EXERCISE OF IMAGINATION	215	(24)
Peter Gahan
REVIEWS THE WAR OF THE WORLD-BETTERERS (Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, edited by J. Percy Smith)	239	(7)
R.F. Dietrich
INDEFATIGABLE! (Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, edited by Dan H. Laurence)	246	(7)
Leon H. Hugo
WIT, COMMON SENSE, AND PROPHETIC VISION (The Complete Prefaces, Vol. 2: 1914-1929, edited by Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary)	253	(5)
Sally Peters
INTERSECTIONS (Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill by Stanley Weintraub)	258	(3)
Margot Peters
THE LATEST BIOGRAPHY OF SHAW (Ascent of the Superman by Sally Peters)	261	(4)
Frederick P.W. McDowell
SHARDS OF SHAW (Shaw and Joyce: "The Last Word in Stolentelling" by Martha Fodaski Black)	265	(6)
J.L. Wisenthal
A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA	271	(22)
John R. Pfeiffer
CONTRIBUTORS	293