Timlett, Peter Valentine
Entry updated 27 January 2025. Tagged: Author.

(1933-2013) UK author whose sf/fantasy Atlantis trilogy – The Seedbearers (1974), The Power of the Serpent (1976) and Twilight of the Serpent (1977) – deals in occasionally occult terms with Atlantis and its fall, moving subsequently to the founding of civilization in Britain by survivors of the collapse, who hope that Atlantean impulses might be preserved on the new Island. [JC]
Peter Valentine Timlett
born London: 14 February 1933
died 20 December 2013
works (selected)
series
Atlantis
- The Seedbearers (London: Quartet Books, 1974) [The Seed Bearers on cover but The Seedbearers on title page: Atlantis: pb/Paul Wright]
- The Power of the Serpent (London: Corgi Books, 1976) [Atlantis: pb/Jim Burns]
- Twilight of the Serpent (London: Corgi Books, 1977) [Atlantis: pb/Jeff Jones]
- The Seedbearers Saga (place not given, Imagination Forum: 2002) [omni of the above three: pb/]
individual titles
- Black Light (place not given, Imagination Forum: 2002) [pb/]
- The Cauldron (place not given, Imagination Forum: 2002) [pb/]
collections
- A Singing in the Wilderness (place not given, Imagination Forum: 2003) [coll: pb/]
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