Peculiar Lives
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| Author | Philip Purser-Hallard |
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Doctor Who book: Time Hunter |
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Release number
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7 |
| Publisher | Telos Publishing Ltd. |
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Publication date
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July 2005 |
| ISBN | (pb) |
| Preceded by | Echoes |
| Followed by | 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 ().
(The series is not formally connected to the Whoniverse.)
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.
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