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Title Shaw and science fiction / edited by Milton T. Wolf.

Imprint University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  822.912 Sh26Ds v.17    ---  Available
Description x, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Shaw; v. 17
Bibliography Bibliography: p. [271]-291.
Contents G.B.S. : refurbishing the tin woodman : science fiction with a heart, a brain, and the nerve! / Ray Bradbury -- Shaw's science fiction on the boards / Ben P. Indick -- Witkacy and Shaw's stage statues / Elwira M. Grossman -- Shaw's utopias / J. L. Wisenthal -- Utopias / Bernard Shaw -- Evolutionary machinery : foreshadowing of science fiction in Bernard Shaw's dramas / Jeffrey M. Wallman -- Bernard Shaw's fantasy island : Simpleton of the unexpected isles / Rodelle Weintraub -- On his shoulders : Shaw's influence on Clarke's Childhood end / Elizabeth Anne Hull -- Ray Bradbury's Bernard Shaw / John R. Pfeiffer -- Last men and first women : the dynamics of life extension in Shaw and Heinlein / George Slusser -- Tropics of a desirable oxymoron : the radical superman in Back to Menthuselah / John Barnes -- Shaw for the utopians, Capek for the anti-utopians / Julie A. Sparks -- Science and spirituality in Back to Menthuselah and Last and first men / Susan Stone-Blackburn -- Skeptical speculation and Back to Menthuselah / Tom Shippey -- Back to Menthuselah : an exercise of imagination / Peter Gahan -- Continuing checklist of Shavania / John R. Pfeiffer.
Subject Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Knowledge -- Science.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Political and social views.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Influence.
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Utopias in literature.
Added Author Wolf, Milton T.
ISBN 0271016817

 
    
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