Cirrus@Austlit

The 'true' account of the events that led to the story recounted in Waltzing Matilda by A. B. Paterson. The story is told through the voice of the bunyip who inhabits the billabong at which the events are said to have unfolded.

Sussex has a fictional meeting with the young Victorian writer Ida Pemberton, who has been projected forward into the Melbourne of 1993, a world Pemberton predicted in an actual short story a century earlier. Since Ida Pemberton died at the early age of twenty-six in 1894 from tuberculosis, Sussex is able to weave an effective "what if" story from what actually was' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).

In 'The Ghost of Mrs Rochester,' Sussex 'links past and present, in this case an illustration of Mrs Rochester in an edition of Jane Eyre, to provide a most effective ghost story' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).