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== Entries ==
== Entries ==
* [[Academician for Game Logic|Academicians for Game Logic]]
=== The Core Entries ===
* [[A'daltem Ano'nde]]
* The [[Spiral Politic]]
* The [[Analytical engine|Analytical Engine]]
* The [[Great Houses]]
* [[Anarchitect]]s
* The [[House Military]]
* Cousin-Thrice-Removed [[Anastasia Romanov|Anastasia]]
* The [[Celestis]]
* [[Faction Paradox]]
** Inset: The Faction Paradox "Family"
* The [[Remote]]
* [[Lesser species|Lesser Species]]
* [[Yssgaroth]]
 
=== History of Faction Paradox ===
* The [[Anchoring of the thread|Anchoring of the Thread]]
* The [[Anchoring of the thread|Anchoring of the Thread]]
* [[Anchorman|Anchormen]]
* [[Apportation]]
* [[Faction Paradox armour|Armour]] (Faction Paradox)
* [[Faction Paradox armour|Armour]] (Faction Paradox)
* [[House Arpexia]]
* Audience of the [[Ruling Houses]]
* Audience of the [[Ruling Houses]]
* [[Babel]]s
* The [[Caldera]]
* Cousin [[Belial]]
* The [[Eleven-Day Empire]]
* [[Beshielach]]
* [[Fashion Paradox]], London
* [[Biodata]]
* The [[Gregorian Compact]]
* [[History]]
* [[The Imperator]] Presidency
* [[Intervention]]
* [[Protocols of Linearity]]
* [[Loa]]
* [[London]] (Eighteenth Century)
* Godfather [[Morlock]]
* [[House Paradox]]
* [[Recruitment]] (Faction Paradox)
* [[Ritual]] (Faction Paradox)
* The [[Act of Severance]]
* [[Sombras que Corta]]
* The [[Stacks]]
* Father [[Stendec]]
* [[Tower Hill]]
* The [[Unkindness]]es
* [[New Palace of Westminster]]
 
=== The History of Earth ===
* The [[Analytical engine|Analytical Engine]]
* The [[Book of Enoch]]
* The [[Book of Enoch]]
* "[[Briefing]]s"
* The [[Broken Remote]]
* [[Michael Brookhaven]]
* [[Brookhaven's Follies]]
* [[Burlesque device|Burlesque Devices]]
* Captain Sir [[Richard Francis Burton|Burton]]
* Captain Sir [[Richard Francis Burton|Burton]]
* [[George Gordon Byron|George Gordon, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale]]
* [[George Gordon Byron|George Gordon, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale]]
* [[Ada Byron]]
* [[Ada Byron]]
* The [[Caldera]]
* [[Canon per tonos|Canon per Tonos]]
* [[Canon per tonos]]
* The [[Clockwork Ouroboros]]
* The [[Eleven-Day Empire]]: The [[1834]] Attack
* [[Ghost cluster|Ghost Cluster]]s
* The [[Grand Family|Grand Families]]
* [[Grindlay's Warehouse]]
* [[Grotesque]]s
* [[Karachi]]
* [[Liber Sanguisugarum]]
* [[Mal'akh]]
* The [[Maltese incident|Maltese Incident]]
* The [[Mountains of the Moon]]
* The [[Musical Offering]]
* [[Napoleonic Era]]
* The [[Princess of Parallelograms Letters|"Princess of Parallelograms" Letters]]
* The [[Shelley Cabal]]
* The [[Society of St George|Society of St. George]]
* [[John Hanning Speke]]
* The [[Star Chamber]]
* The [[walking dead|Walking Dead]]
* [[House Xianthellipse]]
* [[Robert Scarratt]]
 
=== The A-Z of the War ===
* House Strategist [[Entarodora]]
* The [["Monsters" Coda]]
* [[Xenoprediction]]
* [[You diversion|"You" Diversions]]
* The [[Probability Doctrine|"Probability" Doctrine]]
* [[Confusion]]
* [[Utterlost]]
* [[zero time|Zero Time]]
* [[Gravity Spider]]s
* [[Time-thickening]]
* [[Apportation]]
* [[Dressing up as women|Women (Dressing Up As)]]
* [[Nechronomancer]]s
* [[Highest Entropy Matter|HEM]] (Highest Entropy Matter)
* [[Ordifica]]
* [[Intercreational]]s
* [[Leviathan]]s
* [[Quintessence]]
* [[Redemption Cult]]
* [[Forced Regen Mission]]s
* [[D-Mat]]
* [[Burlesque device|Burlesque Devices]]
* "[[Killerbot]]s" (Autonomic)
* [[Temporal vaccination|Vaccinations (Temporal)]]
 
=== Houses and Orders ===
* [[jungle child|Jungle Children]]
* [[Hauserkinder]]
* "[[Justine's Story]]"
* [[House Arpexia]]
* [[Babel]]s
* [[Cast]]s
* [[Cast]]s
* [[Catch-the-Bear's War Bonnet]]
* [[House Catherion]]
* [[House Catherion]]
* The [[Celestis]]
* [[House Ixion]]
* [[Chaotic limiter]]
* [[Lethean Campaign]]
* [[City of the Saved]]
* [[Order of the Weal]]
* The [[Clockwork Ouroboros]]
* Chatelaine [[Thessalia]]
* [[War prediction|War Prediction]]s: Chatelaine [[Thessalia]]
* [[Zo la Domini]]
 
=== The History of the Homeworld ===
* [[Closed Session]] (of the Ruling Houses)
* [[Closed Session]] (of the Ruling Houses)
* [[Compassion]]
* [[Conceptual entity|Conceptual Entities]]
* [[Confusion]]
* The [[Cult of Celebrity Death]]
* [[Chris Cwej|Christopher Rodonanté Cwej]]
* [[Cwejen]]
* [[D-Mat]]
* Dating War Era Events (Difficulties)
* Academician [[Devonire]]
* The [[Diaspora]]
* [[Dronid]]
* [[Dronid]]
* [[House Dvora]]
* [[House Dvora]]
* Father-Twice-Removed [[Dyavol]]
* [[Earth]]: History
* The [[Edimmu]]
* The [[Eleven-Day Empire]]
* [[The enemy]]
* [[The enemy]]
* House Strategist [[Entarodora]]
* [[Eremite]]s
* [[Faction Hollywood]]
* [[Faction Paradox]]
** Inset: The Faction Paradox "Family"
* [[Faction Precursor]]s
* [[Fallahal]]
* The [[Faraway Declaration]]
* The [[Faraway Declaration]]
* [[Fashion Paradox]], London
* [[The Fat]]
* The [[First Message from the Enemy]]
* The [[First Message from the Enemy]]
* [[Flux]]es
* Lord [[Foaming Sky]]
* [[Forced Regen Mission]]s
* Mrs. [[Foyle]]
* [[Gargoyle]]s
* The [[Gauntlet (The Book of the War)|Gauntlet]]
* [[GCI Processor]]
* [[Ghetto of the Damned]]
* [[Ghost Shirt]]s
* [[Gragov]]
* The [[Grand Family|Grand Families]]
* [[Grandfather Paradox]] (Representations)
* The [[Grandfather's Arm]]
* [[Gravity Spider]]s
* The [[Great Houses]]
* The [[Greater Autrobulan Franchise]]
* The [[Gregorian Compact]]
* [[Grindlay's Warehouse]]
* [[Grotesque]]s
* [[House Halfling]]
* Lord [[Halved Birth]]
* [[Hauserkinder]]
* The [[Head of the Presidency]]
* The [[Head of the Presidency]]
* [[Highest Entropy Matter|HEM]] (Highest Entropy Matter)
* [[History]]
* [[Hollow Spectacular]]s
** Inset: Brookhaven's Ghost Kingdom: The Six Central Characters
* The [[Hollywood Bowl Shooting]]
* [[The Homeworld]]
* [[The Homeworld]]
* The [[House Military]]
* The [[House of Lords]]
* The [[House of the Rising Sun]]
* The [[House of the Seven Gables]]
* [[Humanity]]
* [[The Imperator]] Presidency
* [[Intercreational]]s
* [[Intervention]]
* [[Investigator]]s
* [[Thirty-One (The Book of the War)|Investigator Thirty-One]]
* [[House Ixion]]
* The [[Jallama Reed|Jallama Reed Transmissions]]
* [[jungle child|Jungle Children]]
* "[[Justine's Story]]"
* [[Kaiwar]]
* [[Karachi]]
* "[[Killerbot]]s" (Autonomic)
* [[Gargil Krymtorpor]]
* [[Labyrinth (The Book of the War)|Labyrinth]]s
* [[Amanda Legend Lefcourt]]
* [[Lesser species]]
* [[Lethean Campaign]]
* [[Leviathan]]s
* [[Liber Sanguisugarum]]
* [[House Lineacrux]]
* [[House Lineacrux]]
* [[Protocols of Linearity]]
* [[Loa]]
* [[House Lolita]]
* [[London]] (Eighteenth Century)
* The [[Lords Celestial]]
* The [[Malachite Room (Thirteen-Day Republic)|Malachite Room]]
* [[Mal'akh]]
* The [[Maltese incident|Maltese Incident]]
* Lady Armourer [[Mantissa]]
* [[Mark of Indenture]]
* [[Memeovore]]
* [[Mictlan]]
* [[House Mirraflex]]
* The [["Monsters" Coda]]
* Godfather [[Morlock]]
* The [[Mount Usu Duel]]
* The [[Mountains of the Moon]]
* The [[Musical Offering]]
* "[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]"
* Cousin-Once-Removed [[Nadim]]
* [[Nanotechnology]]
* [[Napoleonic Era]]
* [[Nechronomancer]]<nowiki/>s
* [[Ronald Bela Nevitz]]
* The [[New Young Gods]]
* The [[Nine Homeworlds]]
* The [[Nine Homeworlds]]
* [[Noosphere]]
* [[Noosphere]]
* [[North American Warrior Tribe]]s
* The [[North Los Angeles Cabal]]
* Cousin [[Octavia Sutherland|Octavia]]
* [[open door|Open Door]]s
* [[Order of the Dragon]]
* [[Order of the Iron Soul]]
* [[Order of the Weal]]
* [[Order of the White Peacock]]
* [[Ordifica]]
* The [[Ottoman Purges]]
* [[Pai'ngya]]
* [[Parablox]]
* [[House Paradox]]
* [[Paradox anxiety]]
* [[Peyote Dream Runners]]
* The [[Piltdown Mob]]
* Cousin [[Pinocchio (The Book of the War)|Pinocchio]]
* [[Planetesimal]]s
* The [[Poenari Relic]]
* [[Posthuman]]ity
* [[Praxis]]
* The [[Lord President|Presidency]]
* The [[Lord President|Presidency]]
* The [[Princess of Parallelograms Letters|"Princess of Parallelograms" Letters]]
* The [[Probability Doctrine|"Probability" Doctrine]]
* [[Production Hell]]
* [[Protocols of the Great Houses]]
* [[Protocols of the Great Houses]]
* [[Quintessence]]
* [[Dyavol|Grigori Efimovitch Rasputin]]
* [[Personality Reboot]]s
* [[Recruitment]] (Faction Paradox)
* The [[Red Burial]]
* [[Redemption Cult]]
* [[Regen-Inf]]
* [[Regen-Inf]]
* [[Remembrance Tank]]s
* The [[Remonstration Bureau]]
* The [[Remote]]
* [[Removal of Members]]
* [[Ritual]] (Faction Paradox)
* The [[Ruling Houses]]
* The [[Ruling Houses]]
* The [[Rump Parliament]]
* [[Sacrifice]]
* [[Sand and Snow Ammunition]]
* [[Robert Scarratt]]
* [[Secret Architect]]s (of the City of the Saved)
* The [[Act of Severance]]
* [[Sex]]
* [[Sex]]
* [[Shadow-Mask]]s
* [[Five Famous Space Battles|Space]] (Five Famous Battles)
* The [[Shelley Cabal]]
* [[TARDIS|Timeship]]s
* [[Shift]]s
* [[Laura Tobin]]
* Academician [[Umbaste]]
* [[The War King]]
** Inset: The War King's Inaugural Address
* [[Carmen Yeh]]
* Appendix III: [[Carmen Yeh]]'s "[[Fantastical Travels in an Infinite Universe]]"
* [[Compassion]]
 
=== The History of Posthumanity ===
* [[Earth]]: History
* [[Posthuman]]ity
* [[Praxis]]
* [[Siloportem]]
* [[Siloportem]]
* [[Simia KK98|Simia-KK98]]
* [[Time travel|Time-Travel]]: Posthuman
* The [[Society of St George|Society of St. George]]
* [[War prediction|War Prediction]]s: The [[Rivera Manuscript]]
* [[Sombras Que Corta]]
* Appendix IV: Notes on the [[Rivera Manuscript]]
* [[Sons of Tepes]]
 
* [[Five Famous Space Battles|Space]] (Five Famous Battles)
=== The Academician's Story ===
* [[John Hanning Speke]]
* [[Academician for Game Logic|Academicians for Game Logic]]
* The [[Spiral Politic]]
* Academician [[Devonire]]
* The [[Stacks]]
* [[Grandfather Paradox]] (Representations)
* The [[Star Chamber]]
* The [[Grandfather Paradox|Grandfather's Arm]]
* Father [[Stendec]]
* [[Kaiwar]]
* [[Tenskwatawa]]
* [[Paradox anxiety|Paradox Anxiety]]
* Chatelaine [[Thessalia]]
* The [[Thirteen-Day Republic]]
* The [[Thousand-Year Battles]]
* The [[Thousand-Year Battles]]
* "[[Through the Eye of Eternity]]"
* Waves of the [[House Military]]
* [[Time-thickening]]
* Appendix I: The Beginning of the War (A Chronology)
* Time-Travel: Biodata Principle
 
* Time-Travel: Posthuman
=== The Non-History of the Celestis ===
* [[Anarchitect]]s
* [[Chaotic limiter|Chaotic Limiter]]
* [[Conceptual entity|Conceptual Entities]]
* [[Flux]]es
* [[Gargoyle]]s
* [[Meme]]
* [[Mictlan]]
* [[Order of the Dragon]]
* The [[Ottoman Purges]]
* [[Sacrifice]]
* [[Shift]]s
 
=== The Shift's Story ===
* [[Beshielach]]
* Dating War Era Events (Difficulties)
* The [[Greater Autrobulan Franchise]]
* The [[Lords Celestial]]
* [[Memeovore]]
* [[Planetesimal]]s
* [[Personality Reboot]]s
* [[Worldofme]]
 
=== The City of the Saved ===
* [[City of the Saved]]
* The [[Timebeast Assault]]
* The [[Timebeast Assault]]
* [[TARDIS|Timeship]]s
* Former Citizen [[Verrifant]]
* [[House Mirraflex]]
* Lady Armourer [[Mantissa]]
* [[Het Linc]]
* [[Secret Architect]]s (of the City of the Saved)
* [[Uptime Gate]]
* [[Amanda Legend Lefcourt]]
* [[Gargil Krymtorpor]]
* [[Ghetto of the Damned]]
* Lord [[Foaming Sky]]
* [[Order of the Iron Soul]]
* Cousin [[Pinocchio (The Book of the War)|Pinocchio]]
* The [[Rump Parliament]]
* Father [[Timon]]
* Father [[Timon]]
* [[House Halfling]]
* The [[Piltdown Mob]]
* [[Sons of Tepes]]
=== The Impaler's Story ===
* [[Tirgoviste]]
* [[Tirgoviste]]
* [[Laura Tobin]]
* [[Tower Hill]]
* [[House Tracolix]]
* [[Ulterior World]]s
* [[Ulterior World]]s
* Academician [[Umbaste]]
* [[Vlad III]] of Wallachia
* The [[Unkindness]]es
* [[Wallachia]]
* [[Uptime Gate]]
* [[Djinn]]
* [[Utterlost]]
* The [[Edimmu]]
* [[Temporal vaccination|Vaccinations (Temporal)]]
* [[Gragov]]
* Lord [[Halved Birth]]
* [[Investigator]]s
* [[Thirty-One (The Book of the War)|Investigator Thirty-One]]
* [[Mark of Indenture]]
* The [[Poenari Relic]]
* [[Dyavol|Grigori Efimovitch Rasputin]]
 
=== The Thirteen-Day Republic ===
* Cousin-Thrice-Removed [[Anastasia Romanov|Anastasia]]
* The [[Cult of Celebrity Death]]
* Father-Twice-Removed [[Dyavol]]
* The [[House of Lords]]
* The [[Malachite Room]]
* Cousin-Once-Removed [[Nadim]]
* Cousin [[Octavia Sutherland|Octavia]]
* The [[Red Burial]]
* [[Removal of Members]]
* The [[Thirteen-Day Republic]]
* [[Battle of Valentine's Day]]
* [[Battle of Valentine's Day]]
* [[Chad Vandemeer]]
* The [[Winter Palace]]
* [[Time sensitivity|Witch-blood]]
 
=== Labyrinths ===
* [[Biodata]]
* The [[Diaspora]]
* [[Eremite]]s
* [[Faction Precursor]]s
* Mrs. [[Foyle]]
* The [[House of the Rising Sun]]
* [[Labyrinth (The Book of the War)|Labyrinth]]s
* The [[Remonstration Bureau]]
* [[Voodoo Charter]]
* The [[Venue Accords]]
* The [[Venue Accords]]
* Former Citizen [[Verrifant]]
* [[Weaponstore]]s (Remote)
 
=== The Ghost Dance ===
* [[A'daltem Ano'nde]]
* Cousin [[Belial]]
* [[Catch-the-Bear's War Bonnet]]
* [[Ghost shirt|Ghost Shirt]]s
* [[Native America|North American]] [[Warrior tribe|Warrior Tribe]]s
* [[Nunaha'wu]]
* [[open door|Open Door]]s
* [[Pai'ngya]]
* [[Peyote Dream Runners]]
* [[Sand and Snow Ammunition]]
* [[Tenskwatawa]]
* Appendix II: From the North American Journals of Cousin [[Belial]]
 
=== The History of the Remote ===
* [[Anchorman|Anchormen]]
* The [[Broken Remote]]
* [[Fallahal]]
* The [[Jallama Reed|Jallama Reed Transmissions]]
* The [[New Young Gods]]
* [[Remembrance Tank]]s
* [[Shadow-Mask]]s
* [[Simia KK98|Simia-KK98]]
* The [[Viewers and Listeners Protocols]]
* The [[Viewers and Listeners Protocols]]
* [[Vlad III]] of Wallachia
* [[Voodoo Charter]]
* The [[walking dead|Walking Dead]]
* [[Wallachia]]
* [[The War King]]
** Inset: The War King's Inaugural Address
* [[War prediction|War Prediction]]s
** Chatelaine Thessalia
** The [[Rivera Manuscript]]
* [[House Military|Waves of the House Military]]
* [[Weaponstore]]s (Remote)
* [[New Palace of Westminster]]
* The [[Winter Palace (Thirteen-Day Republic)|Winter Palace]]
* [[Time sensitivity|Witch-blood]]
* [[Dressing up as women|Women (Dressing Up As)]]
* [[Worldofme]]
* [[Wovoka]]
* [[Wovoka]]
* [[Xenoprediction]]
 
* [[House Xianthellipse]]
=== Faction Hollywood ===
* [[Carmen Yeh]]
* [[Michael Brookhaven]]
* [[You diversion|"You" Diversions]]
* [[Brookhaven's Follies]]
* [[Chris Cwej|Christopher Rodonanté Cwej]]
* [[Cwejen]]
* [[Faction Hollywood]]
* [[The Fat]]
* The [[Gauntlet (The Book of the War)|Gauntlet]]
* [[GCI Processor]]
* [[Hollow Spectacular]]s
** Inset: Brookhaven's Ghost Kingdom: The Six Central Characters
* The [[Hollywood Bowl Shooting]]
* The [[House of the Seven Gables]]
* The [[Mount Usu Duel]]
* "[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]"
* The [[North Los Angeles Cabal]]
* [[Order of the White Peacock]]
* [[Production Hell]]
* "[[Through the Eye of Eternity]]"
* [[Chad Vandemeer]]
 
=== The End ===
* "[[Briefing]]s"
* [[Human]]ity
* [[Nanotechnology]]
* [[Parablox]]
* [[Ronald Bela Nevitz]]
* Time-Travel: Biodata Principle
* The [[Younger World Story]]
* The [[Younger World Story]]
* [[Yssgaroth]]
 
* [[zero time|Zero Time]]
=== Coda ===
* [[Zo la Domini]]
* [[House Lolita]]
* [[House Tracolix]]


== References ==
== References ==
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== Notes ==
== 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."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080509161052/http://www.gallifreyone.com/interview.php?id=miles Outpost Gallifrey Interview]</ref>
* 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."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080509161052/http://www.gallifreyone.com/interview.php?id=miles Outpost Gallifrey Interview]</ref>
* "Design Specs for Advanced Users" were published on the Faction Paradox website.
* 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.
* 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.
:* [[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.
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:* [[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.
:* [[Mark Clapham]] and Bucher-Jones explored the [[Celestis]] in their cowritten [[Eighth Doctor]] novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]''.
:* [[Mark Clapham]] and Bucher-Jones explored the [[Celestis]] in their cowritten [[Eighth Doctor]] novel [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]''.
* Lawrence Miles' "The Faction Paradox Family" was originally published on the Faction Paradox website.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011115105551/http://www.factionparadox.co.uk:80/family.htm The Faction Paradox Family]</ref>
* Lawrence Miles' "The Faction Paradox Family" was originally published on the Faction Paradox website.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20011115105551/http://www.factionparadox.co.uk:80/family.htm The Faction Paradox Family]</ref> "Design Specs for Advanced Users", purporting to reveal the "secret pathway running through the whole volume", were also published on said website, and they form a basis for the organisation of the entries on this page. The Specs specified that its listing contained "almost certainly at least one mistake", as well as "a single entry which isn't connected to anything else".<ref>[http://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook1reading Design Specs for Advanced Users]</ref> The mistake was the listing of the nonexistent "[[Robert Scarratt|Scarratt]]'s Group" entry under "The A-Z of the War", and the single unconnected entry was "[[Parablox]]" (here placed under "The End").


== 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

The Core Entries

History of Faction Paradox

The History of Earth

The A-Z of the War

Houses and Orders

The History of the Homeworld

The History of Posthumanity

The Academician's Story

The Non-History of the Celestis

The Shift's Story

The City of the Saved

The Impaler's Story

The Thirteen-Day Republic

Labyrinths

The Ghost Dance

The History of the Remote

Faction Hollywood

The End

Coda

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] "Design Specs for Advanced Users", purporting to reveal the "secret pathway running through the whole volume", were also published on said website, and they form a basis for the organisation of the entries on this page. The Specs specified that its listing contained "almost certainly at least one mistake", as well as "a single entry which isn't connected to anything else".[9] The mistake was the listing of the nonexistent "Scarratt's Group" entry under "The A-Z of the War", and the single unconnected entry was "Parablox" (here placed under "The End").

Continuity

References

  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
  9. ↑ Design Specs for Advanced Users

External links

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