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Article: Shaw and Science Fiction, Volume Seventeen of The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Milton T. Wolf, ed. Shaw and Science Fiction, Volume Seventeen of The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies.
General Editor, Fred D. Crawford and John R. Pfeiffer, Bibliographer. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania UP, 1997. 294 pp. $35.00.
So certain were a group of us, still in our middle and late teens, that Shaw, like his long-livers in Back to Methuselah, would live to be at least three-hundred years, that we were absolutely devastated when he died (in 1950). For several months following his death, we all wore black arm bands. Who else would now offer us ideas unconstrained by conventions or systems; who else would provide such courageous and sensible ...