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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* Though it was known that [[Lawrence Miles]] and [[Simon Bucher-Jones]] contributed most to the Book, in that order, it was deliberately kept unclear as to which authors contributed which articles. However, later releases in the [[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox series]] would provide some clues.
:* Lawrence Miles himself likely penned the entries for [[Faction Paradox]], the [[Remote]], the [[Great Houses]], the [[Spiral Politic]], [[Grandfather Paradox]], and [[the enemy]], at the absolute minimum. As editor, he rewrote many or all entries. The "Faction Paradox Family" section was credited to him in the book's notes.
:* The articles concerning the [[City of the Saved]] were most obviously written by [[Philip Purser-Hallard]], who went on to write [[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'' and edit five anthologies in [[Obverse Books]]' [[The City of the Saved (series)|City of the Saved]] anthology series. Puser-Hallard commented that he had not written the articles on [[Wallachia]], [[Michael Brookhaven]], [[Grigori Rasputin]], or the [[Spiral Politic]]; he did write an entry for one of [[the Homeworld]]'s six [[ruling Houses]], but it was thoroughly overhauled in editing. <ref>http://www.infinitarian.com/botwswww.html</ref>
:* Simon Bucher-Jones was identified as the creator of [[Robert Scarratt]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]''; he presumably also penned entries about the [[Celestis]], who he had previously explored in his [[Eighth Doctor]] novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'', and [[Entarodora]], who featured in his novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]''. That novel's co-author [[Jonathan Dennis]], who also contributed to ''The Book of the War'', used [[Faction Hollywood]] in his story [[PROSE]]: ''[[Remake/Remodel (short story)|Remake/Remodel]]''.
:* [[Kelly Hale]], who herself is part Native American, wrote the entries concerning Cousin [[Belial]] and the Faction's [[Remote]] experiments on the [[Native American]] warrior tribes.
:* [[Mags L. Halliday]] used Cousin [[Octavia Sutherland|Octavia]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Warring States (novel)|Warring States]]'' and presumably wrote about [[Anastasia Romanov|Anastasia]] and the [[Thirteen-Day Republic]] for ''The Book of the War''.
:* [[Daniel O'Mahony]] used [[Thessalia]], [[the Imperator]], and [[babel]]s in his novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[Newtons Sleep (novel)|Newtons Sleep]]''.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==

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The Book of the War was the first novel in the Faction Paradox series of novels.

Publisher's summary

The Great Houses

Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the Spiral Politic.

The Enemy

Not so much an army as a hostile new kind of history. So ambitious it can re-write worlds, so complex that even calling it by its name seems to underestimate it.

Faction Paradox

Renegades, ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers, the criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults, happy to be caught in the crossfire and ready to take whatever's needed from the wreckage... assuming the other powers leave behind a universe that's habitable.

The War

A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect."

Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past...

Entries

References

to be added

Notes

Continuity

to be added

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