1. The Speculations of H.G. Wells and T.H. Huxley: A Study in the Relations of Science and Literature 1881-1896 (1995)

This thesis, for which I was awarded the degree of Master of Philosophy (1995, University of Sydney), is an interdisciplinary study of two of the early works of H. G. Wells – The Time Machine (1895) and The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896). It examines their relationship to the science and literature of their day, including the essays of Thomas Henry Huxley.

2. The Time Machine: A Scientific and Chronological Redrafting (1994)

This paper was first published in The Wellsian (No. 17, Winter 1994). It examines the chronology of H. G. Wells’s scientific romance The Time Machine (1895), and shows that the Time Traveller has perpetrated a hoax on his guests. Since he has not really travelled in Time, where has he been, and what has he been doing?

3. The Stolen Body: Or the Case of the Fraudulent Medium (2009)

The endeavours of psychical researchers in the late nineteenth century to gain scientific respectability met with an appropriate response in H.G. Wells’s short story, “The Stolen Body”.