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writer= [[Lawrence Miles]], [[Simon Bucher-Jones]], [[Daniel O'Mahony]], [[Ian McIntire]], [[Mags L. Halliday]], [[Helen Fayle]], [[Philip Purser-Hallard]], [[Kelly Hale]], [[Jonathan Dennis]], [[Mark Clapham]]| | writer= [[Lawrence Miles]], [[Simon Bucher-Jones]], [[Daniel O'Mahony]], [[Ian McIntire]], [[Mags L. Halliday]], [[Helen Fayle]], [[Philip Purser-Hallard]], [[Kelly Hale]], [[Jonathan Dennis]], [[Mark Clapham]]| | ||
publisher= [[Mad Norwegian Press]]| | publisher= [[Mad Norwegian Press]]| | ||
release date= [[September]], [[2002]] | | release date= [[17th September|17]] [[September]], [[2002]] | | ||
format= Paperback Book, | format= Paperback Book, 256 Pages | | ||
isbn= ISBN 1-57032-905-2 (Paperback) <br> ISBN 1-57032-907-9 (Hardback)| | isbn= ISBN 1-57032-905-2 (Paperback) <br> ISBN 1-57032-907-9 (Hardback)| | ||
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next story= [[This Town Will Never Let Us Go]]}} | next story= [[This Town Will Never Let Us Go]] | ||
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'''The Book of the War''' is the first of a series of books in the [[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]] series, a non-BBC spin-off of ''Doctor Who'' based upon a series of audio dramas; characters from Faction Paradox also appeared in several [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels. | '''The Book of the War''' is the first of a series of books in the [[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]] series, a non-BBC spin-off of ''Doctor Who'' based upon a series of audio dramas; characters from Faction Paradox also appeared in several [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*{{Dwrefguide|paradox_n00.htm|The Book of the War}} | |||
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20050305212112/www.factionparadox.co.uk/bookroute.htm Reading guide to ''how'' to read '''The Book of the War'' and which order to read entries] (via [http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]) | *[http://web.archive.org/web/20050305212112/www.factionparadox.co.uk/bookroute.htm Reading guide to ''how'' to read '''The Book of the War'' and which order to read entries] (via [http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]) | ||
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The Book of the War is the first of a series of books in the Faction Paradox series, a non-BBC spin-off of Doctor Who based upon a series of audio dramas; characters from Faction Paradox also appeared in several BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures 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.
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.
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...
Notes
Although purporting to be an encyclopedia of the first fifty years of the War in Heaven, The Book of the War offers mostly original information rather than summaries of established events. It should then be understood as a work of fiction in its own right, something somewhere between an anthology and a collaborative novel.
Its narrator is unreliable, at times unaware of details from other sources which might cast a different light on the events related, and so information offered as 'fact' in the book should not be uncritically accepted as such. Despite this, and despite the Doctor's actions in The Ancestor Cell preventing many of the events it describes from ever occurring, The Book of the War offers the closest and most detailed look so far at a Time War in progress.
References
Continuity
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See also
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External Links
- The Book of the War at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- Reading guide to how to read 'The Book of the War and which order to read entries (via Internet Archive: Wayback Machine)
