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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, ČAPEK 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