Description: Contents NOTICES ix FOREWORD: SHAW AND SCIENCE FICTION 1 Milton T. Wolf 1. G.B.S.: REFURBISHING THE TIN WOODMAN: SCIENCE FICTION WITH A HEART, A BRAIN, AND THE NERVE! 11 Ray Bradbury 2. SHAW'S SCIENCE FICTION ON THE BOARDS 19 Ben P. Indick 3. WITKACY AND SHAW'S STAGE STATUES 39 Elwira M. Grossman 4. SHAW'S UTOPIAS 53 J. L. Wisenthal 5. UTOPIAS 65 Bernard Shaw 6. EVOLUTIONARY MACHINERY: FORESHADOWINGS OF SCIENCE FICTION IN BERNARD SHAW'S DRAMAS 81 Jeffrey M. Wallmann 7. BERNARD SHAW'S FANTASY ISLAND: SIMPLETON OF THE UNEXPECTED ISLES 97 Rodelle Weintraub 8. ON HIS SHOULDERS: SHAW'S INFLUENCE ON CLARKE'SCHILDHOOD'S END 107 Elizabeth Anne Hull 9. RAY BRADBURY'S BERNARD SHAW 119 John R. Pfeiffer 10. LAST MEN AND FIRST WOMEN: THE DYNAMICS OF LIFE EXTENSION IN SHAW AND HEINLEIN 133 George Slusser 11. TROPICS OF A DESIRABLE OXYMORON: THE RADICAL SUPERMAN IN BACK TO METHUSELAH 155 John Barnes 12. SHAW FOR THE UTOPIANS, cAPEK FOR THE ANTIUTOPIANS 165 Julie A. Sparks 13. SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY IN BACK TO METHUSELAH AND LAST AND FIRST MEN 185 Susan Stone-Blackburn 14. SKEPTICAL SPECULATION AND BACK TO METHUSELAH 199 Tom Shippey 15. BACK TO METHUSELAH: AN EXERCISE OF IMAGINATION 215 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 R. F. Dietrich INDEFATIGABLE! (Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw: Theatrics, edited by Dan H. Laurence) 246 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 Sally Peters INTERSECTIONS (Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill by Stanley Weintraub) 258 Margot Peters THE LATEST BIOGRAPHY OF SHAW (Ascent of the Superman by Sally Peters) 261 Frederick P. W. McDowell SHARDS OF SHAW (Shaw and Joyce: "The Last Word in Stolentelling" by Martha Fodaski Black) 265 J. L. Wisenthal A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA 271 John R. Pfeiffer CONTRIBUTORS 293

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