Book description
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, Honor
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 Honor 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. 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, Honor 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 Honor 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.
