(1867-1905) Australian-born playwright and author, schooled in the UK 1874-1883, again resident in the UK from 1894, author of a large number of books in various genres he remains best known for his Dr Nikola sequence: A Bid for Fortune Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta ( 1895), where Nikola's capacity to mesmerize his victims (see Hypnosis) is made explicit Doctor Nikola ( 1896), which is mostly set in a Tibetan Lost World, where a formula for Immortality is discovered The Lust of Hate ( 1898), in which a massively effective Poison gas and other nefarious Inventions threaten the civilized world Dr Nikola's Experiment ( 1899) where, like Jules Verne's Captain Nemo, the doctor begins marginally to soften his contempt for the human race and "Farewell, Nikola" ( 1901), where through experimentations in astral science Nikola becomes capable of Time Travel, escaping into the safety of the past.
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