Peculiar Lives

Peculiar Lives

doctorwhobook
title=Peculiar Lives
series=Time Hunter
number=7


writer=Philip Purser-Hallard
publisher=Telos Publishing Ltd.
isbn= ISBN 1-903889-47-2 (pb)
pages=
date=July 2005
preceding=Echoes
following=Deus Le Volt|

"Peculiar Lives" is the seventh in the series of Time Hunter novellas and features the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish from Daniel O'Mahony's "Doctor Who" novella "The Cabinet of Light". It is written by Philip Purser-Hallard, author of the Mad Norwegian Press Faction Paradox novel "Of the City of the Saved..."

The novella is also available in a limited edition hardback, signed by the author (ISBN 1-903889-48-0).

(The series is not formally connected to the Whoniverse.)

Themes

"Peculiar Lives" is written as if by Erik Clevedon, who is based on the real-life author Olaf Stapledon. The story draws particularly from Stapledon's novels "Last and First Men" (1930), "Last Men in London" (1932), "Odd John" (1935) and "Sirius" (1944). The book also features the characters of Gideon Beech, a fictionalised George Bernard Shaw, and (briefly) John Cleavis, a fictionalised C. S. Lewis character originally created by Paul Magrs. Purser-Hallard studied Stapledon's, Shaw's and Lewis' work in his doctoral thesis, and draws on them for the key themes of "Peculiar Lives". These concern eugenics and the evolution of mankind within an eschatological context.

ynopsis

Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish become embroiled in the endgame of a plot which began a generation ago, with the birth of the superhuman children known as "the Peculiar". While Emily encounters their chronicler, the elderly science-fiction novelist Erik Clevedon, Honoré is pitched against his will into an unimaginably distant future.

Literary References

John Cleavis first appeared in Paul Magrs' "Doctor Who" novel "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (2002) and then in the standalone "To the Devil — a Diva!" (2004). He is included in "Peculiar Lives" with Magrs' permission. "Peculiar Lives" also name-checks J. D. Beresford's "The Hampdenshire Wonder" (1911).

External links

* [http://www.gallifreyone.net/article.php?id=peculiarlives Online sample chapter]
* [http://www.telos.cuttingsarchive.com/th-nov/07peculiar/main.htm Telos Publishing - "Peculiar Lives"]
* [http://www.infinitarian.com/pl.html Author's pages about the book] (including essays on the literary contexts of the novella and some additional material)
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