<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Giulio Prisco asked:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">.Anyone before Lessing?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Well, the Kipling Society claim at <a href="http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_scifi.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_scifi.htm</a> that Rudyard Kipling, 1907 Nobel Laureate, had a big influence on SF and wrote several SF stories. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">George Bernard Shaw, 1925 Nobel Laureate, wrote "Back to Methuselah (A metabiological pentateuch)" in 1918 to 1920. It's a series of plays on the theme of longevity which I have never got around to reading so I can't tell you how transhumanist they are.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bertrand Russell, famous philosopher and 1950 Nobel Laureate, wrote some fantasy and science fiction - <span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px;">: </span><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px;"> Satan in the Suburbs and Other Stories</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1953), </span><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px;">Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1954) and </span><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px;">Fact and Fiction</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1961). All were republished in </span><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px;">The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1972). </span></span>Also, some of his philosophical writings contain elements of futurology.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So there are a few.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Tom</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>