PECULIAR LIVES
By Philip Purser-Hallard
ISBN 1903889472 (paperback).
ISBN 1903889480 (hardback).
Published in 2005 by Telos Publishing.
Cover by Matthew Laznicka.
PECULIAR LIVES
‘From the pen of Mr Erik Clevedon, Peculiar Lives is another “scientific romance” along the lines of The Coming Times and The Star Beasts. Exotic colour is added by the character of an American Negro detective, Honoré Lechasseur, and his delightful English companion Miss Blandish.’
Once a celebrated author of ‘scientific romances’, Erik Clevedon is an old man now. But his fiction conceals a dangerous truth, as Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish discover after a chance encounter with a strangely gifted young pickpocket. Born between the Wars, the superhuman children known as ‘the Peculiar’ are reaching adulthood – and they believe that humanity is making a poor job of looking after the world they plan to inherit...
Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction... original adventures in time and space.
EXTRAS
- Read an online sample chapter of Peculiar Lives at Outpost Gallifrey.
- Read a slightly alternative back cover blurb.
- Read extracts from the notebooks of Erik Clevedon. (NB: Beware Spoilers!)
- Read two essays on the literary contexts of Peculiar Lives.
- Telos’ pages about Peculiar Lives.
- Read online reviews of Peculiar Lives.
- Buy Peculiar Times at Peculiar Tomes.
- Buy Peculiar Lives from Amazon.co.uk in paperback or hardback, from Amazon.com in paperback, or from Telos Publishing.
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Peculiar Lives cover artwork © Matthew Laznicka 2005.
Time Hunter cover design © Nathan Skreslet 2003.