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|main character = [[Erik Clevedon]]
|main character = [[Erik Clevedon]]
|featuring= [[Honoré Lechasseur]], [[Emily Blandish]]
|featuring     = [[Honoré Lechasseur|Honoré]], [[Emily Blandish|Emily]]
|enemy          =The Supernormals
|enemy          = [[Supernormal]]s
|setting        = [[Great Britain]], [[1950]]
|setting        = [[Great Britain]], [[1950]]
|writer        = [[Philip Purser-Hallard]]
|writer        = Philip Purser-Hallard
|read by        = [[John Leeson]]
|read by        = [[John Leeson]]
|publisher      = Telos Publishing  
|publisher      = Telos Publishing
|release date  = July 2005
|release date  = July 2005
|format        = {{Il|Hardback|Paperback|144 pages}}
|format        = {{Il|Hardback|Paperback|144 pages}}
|isbn          = ISBN 1-903889-47-2  
|isbn          = ISBN 1-903889-47-2
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'''''Peculiar Lives''''' was the seventh novel in the ''[[Time Hunter]]'' series published by [[Telos Publishing]]. It was written by [[Philip Purser-Hallard]].
'''''Peculiar Lives''''' was the seventh novel in the ''[[Time Hunter]]'' series published by [[Telos Publishing]]. It was written by [[Philip Purser-Hallard]].


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* [[Violet (Peculiar Lives)|Violet]]
* [[Violet (Peculiar Lives)|Violet]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* [[The Terminal]] was designed by the [[Supernormal]]s to wipe out [[human]]s.
* [[The Terminal]] was designed by the [[Supernormal]]s to wipe out [[human]]s.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* Purser-Hallard published some deleted "extracts from the notebooks of Erik Clevedon" on his website.<ref>[http://www.infinitarian.com/plnotebook.html Extracts from the Notebooks of Erik Clevedon]</ref>
[[File:th8.jpg|thumb|Audiobook cover.]]
* The story was released as an audiobook read by [[John Leeson]].
* Purser-Hallard published some bonus "extracts from the notebooks of Erik Clevedon" on his website.<ref>[http://www.infinitarian.com/plnotebook.html Extracts from the Notebooks of Erik Clevedon]</ref>
* Gideon Beech would later appear in Purser-Hallard's ''Sherlock Holmes'' novel, ''[[The Vanishing Man (novel)|The Vanishing Man]]'', released in [[2019 (releases)|2019]].
* Gideon Beech would later appear in Purser-Hallard's ''Sherlock Holmes'' novel, ''[[The Vanishing Man (novel)|The Vanishing Man]]'', released in [[2019 (releases)|2019]].


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* Clevedon mentions Professor [[John Cleavis]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'')
* Clevedon mentions Professor [[John Cleavis]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'')
* [[Gideon Beech]] is a famous [[playwright]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Vanishing Man (novel)|The Vanishing Man]]'')
* [[Gideon Beech]] is a famous [[playwright]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Vanishing Man (novel)|The Vanishing Man]]'')
== Audio release ==
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The story was released as an audiobook read by [[John Leeson]].


== External links ==
== External links ==
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* {{Telos|shop/time-hunter-novellas/time-hunter-collection/}}
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Latest revision as of 19:10, 29 February 2024

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Peculiar Lives was the seventh novel in the Time Hunter series published by Telos Publishing. It was written by Philip Purser-Hallard.

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"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.

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Audiobook cover.
  • The story was released as an audiobook read by John Leeson.
  • Purser-Hallard published some bonus "extracts from the notebooks of Erik Clevedon" on his website.[1]
  • Gideon Beech would later appear in Purser-Hallard's Sherlock Holmes novel, The Vanishing Man, released in 2019.

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