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== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
[[Time Lord|The Great Houses]]
The [[Great Houses]]


Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the [[Spiral Politic]].
Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the [[Spiral Politic]].
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A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect."
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...
Marking the first five decades of the conflict, [[The Book of the War|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 [[human]]ity. 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 ==
== Entries ==
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:* [[Ian McIntire]] introduced [[Carmen Yeh]] in his unlicensed short story ''Schrodinger's Botanist'' for the charity anthology ''Perfect Timing''. His entries were co-written with the uncredited [[Mad Norwegian Press]] CEO [[Lars Pearson]].<ref name="BotW Question #8" />
:* [[Ian McIntire]] introduced [[Carmen Yeh]] in his unlicensed short story ''Schrodinger's Botanist'' for the charity anthology ''Perfect Timing''. His entries were co-written with the uncredited [[Mad Norwegian Press]] CEO [[Lars Pearson]].<ref name="BotW Question #8" />
:* [[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''.
:* [[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''.
:* The articles concerning the [[City of the Saved]] were composed 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. Purser-Hallard commented that he had not written the articles on [[Wallachia]], [[Michael Brookhaven]], [[Grigori Rasputin]], or the [[Spiral Politic]]; however, he did write an entry for one of [[the Homeworld]]'s six [[ruling Houses]], though Miles thoroughly overhauled it in editing.<ref>[http://www.infinitarian.com/botwswww.html "So, Who Wrote What?"]</ref>
:* [[Philip Purser-Hallard]] wrote the articles concerning the [[City of the Saved]], which was later featured in his novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'' and [[Obverse Books]]' [[The City of the Saved (series)|City of the Saved]] anthology series. Purser-Hallard commented that he had not written the articles on [[Wallachia]], [[Michael Brookhaven]], [[Grigori Rasputin]], or the [[Spiral Politic]];<ref name="SWWW">[http://www.infinitarian.com/botwswww.html "So, Who Wrote What?"]</ref> however, he did write an entry for [[House Mirraflex]],<ref>[https://twitter.com/purserhallard/status/926070499729428480 purserhallard on Twitter]</ref> though Miles thoroughly overhauled it in editing.<ref name="SWWW" />
:* [[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.
:* [[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.
:* [[Jonathan Dennis]] created [[Faction Hollywood]], but at least three other writers contributed to those entries.<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/botw-constructing-themes-question-t651-s10.html BotW Constructing Themes Question #12]</ref> He would later reuse Faction Hollywood in his story [[PROSE]]: ''[[Remake/Remodel (short story)|Remake/Remodel]]'' and co-write [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'' with Bucher-Jones.
:* [[Jonathan Dennis]] created [[Faction Hollywood]], but at least three other writers contributed to those entries.<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/botw-constructing-themes-question-t651-s10.html BotW Constructing Themes Question #12]</ref> He would later reuse Faction Hollywood in his story [[PROSE]]: ''[[Remake/Remodel (short story)|Remake/Remodel]]'' and co-write [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'' with Bucher-Jones.

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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

Notes

  • While editing the Book, Lawrence Miles described it as "a continuity in a book, it's an encyclopaedia to the War Era universe. It's got a structure rather than a plot, the way history's got a structure or a Bible's got a structure. Some parts of the universe are cross-referenced with other parts, and it all comes together to make up this great big ... vision."[2]
  • It was deliberately kept unclear as to which authors contributed which articles. However, later releases in the Faction Paradox series would provide some clues.
  • Lawrence Miles' "The Faction Paradox Family" was originally published on the Faction Paradox website.[8]

Continuity

to be added

External links

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 BotW Constructing Themes Question #8
  2. ↑ Outpost Gallifrey Interview
  3. ↑ Ask the Author SBJ
  4. ↑ Brookhaven: A Filmography
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "So, Who Wrote What?"
  6. ↑ purserhallard on Twitter
  7. ↑ BotW Constructing Themes Question #12
  8. ↑ The Faction Paradox Family
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