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An '''untitled novel''', nicknamed '''"Novel #6"''' by [[Lars Pearson]], was [[Mad Norwegian Press]]' planned sixth ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' novel, intended to follow [[Kelly Hale]]'s ''[[Erasing Sherlock (novel)|Erasing Sherlock]]''.<ref name="tapatalk">{{cite web | An '''untitled novel''', nicknamed '''"Novel #6"''' by [[Lars Pearson]], was [[Mad Norwegian Press]]' planned sixth ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' novel, intended to follow [[Kelly Hale]]'s ''[[Erasing Sherlock (novel)|Erasing Sherlock]]''.<ref name="tapatalk">{{cite web | ||
|url=https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/you-want-to-know-the-few-char-t507.html#p1413 | |url = https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/you-want-to-know-the-few-char-t507.html#p1413 | ||
|title=You want to know the few-char! | |title=You want to know the few-char! | ||
|author=[[Lars Pearson]] | |author = [[Lars Pearson]] | ||
|date of source=4 October 2005 | |date of source=4 October 2005 | ||
|website name=The Faction Paradox Community | |website name = The Faction Paradox Community | ||
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Every time I come back to ''Faction Paradox'', I tell myself that I'm going to make a fresh start and do it "properly", and every time I'm thwarted by the fact that the whole project was mired in geekery from the very start.|[[Lawrence Miles]]<ref>{{cite web | Every time I come back to ''Faction Paradox'', I tell myself that I'm going to make a fresh start and do it "properly", and every time I'm thwarted by the fact that the whole project was mired in geekery from the very start.|[[Lawrence Miles]]<ref>{{cite web | ||
|url=http://beasthouse-lm.blogspot.com/ | |url = http://beasthouse-lm.blogspot.com/ | ||
|author=Lawrence Miles | |author=Lawrence Miles | ||
|title=The Beasthouse | |title = The Beasthouse | ||
|date of source=3 January 2007 | |date of source=3 January 2007 | ||
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070925233153/http://beasthouse-lm.blogspot.com/ | |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070925233153/http://beasthouse-lm.blogspot.com/ | ||
|archivedate=25 September 2007 | |archivedate=25 September 2007 | ||
}}</ref>}} | }}</ref>}} | ||
Following the return of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'' to television in [[2005 (releases)|2005]], sales of ''Faction Paradox'' books declined as readers became "more and more focused on the new ''Doctor Who'' series", which did not "leave much room for the spin-off ranges." As a result, ''Erasing Sherlock'' was the final ''Faction Paradox'' novel released by Mad Norwegian Press,<ref>{{cite web | Following the return of ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'' to television in [[2005 (releases)|2005]], sales of ''Faction Paradox'' books declined as readers became "more and more focused on the new ''Doctor Who'' series", which did not "leave much room for the spin-off ranges." As a result, ''Erasing Sherlock'' was the final ''Faction Paradox'' novel released by Mad Norwegian Press,<ref>{{cite web | ||
|url=http://www.madnorwegian.com/fp/news.php | |url = http://www.madnorwegian.com/fp/news.php | ||
|title=Faction News | |title=Faction News | ||
|author=Lars Pearson | |author = Lars Pearson | ||
|date of source=14 September 2006 | |date of source=14 September 2006 | ||
|website name=Mad Norwegian Press | |website name = Mad Norwegian Press | ||
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927235719/http://www.madnorwegian.com:80/fp/news.php | |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927235719/http://www.madnorwegian.com:80/fp/news.php | ||
|archivedate=27 September 2008 | |archivedate = 27 September 2008 | ||
}}</ref> and although the series continued with [[Daniel O'Mahony]]'s ''[[Newtons Sleep (novel)|Newtons Sleep]]'' at [[Random Static|Random Static Ltd]] over a year later, "Novel #6" was never released. | }}</ref> and although the series continued with [[Daniel O'Mahony]]'s ''[[Newtons Sleep (novel)|Newtons Sleep]]'' at [[Random Static|Random Static Ltd]] over a year later, "Novel #6" was never released. | ||
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An untitled novel, nicknamed "Novel #6" by Lars Pearson, was Mad Norwegian Press' planned sixth Faction Paradox novel, intended to follow Kelly Hale's Erasing Sherlock.[1]
Series creator Lawrence Miles planned "Novel #6" with Pearson to reward faithful readers of the series by radically altering the shape of the War in Heaven. By Pearson's description, it was to be "(for lack of a better term) epic", a "cornerstone book", and "world-shattering / (insert cataclysmic term to taste)". Another author was meant to write it for release in 2006, although due to the amount of planning involved, the official announcement was delayed until late 2005.[1]
Pearson described the book as "the Star Wars of the Faction universe."[1] While writing The True History of Faction Paradox two years later, Miles wrote,
In my head, the Faction series is what I think Star Wars is like: a piece of visceral, dynamic art, in which scale, tone and motion are all that matter, and the sci-fi setting is almost irrelevant.
Yet in practice, it always ends up closer to what sci-fi fans think Star Wars is like: an adolescent wank-fantasy in which space-outlaws are "cool" and Revenge of the Sith isn't as good as a shitty spin-off novel about Boba Fett climbing out of the Sarlacc before having hi-tech bounty-hunting adventures with the third monster on the left from Jabba's palace.
Every time I come back to Faction Paradox, I tell myself that I'm going to make a fresh start and do it "properly", and every time I'm thwarted by the fact that the whole project was mired in geekery from the very start.
Following the return of Doctor Who to television in 2005, sales of Faction Paradox books declined as readers became "more and more focused on the new Doctor Who series", which did not "leave much room for the spin-off ranges." As a result, Erasing Sherlock was the final Faction Paradox novel released by Mad Norwegian Press,[3] and although the series continued with Daniel O'Mahony's Newtons Sleep at Random Static Ltd over a year later, "Novel #6" was never released.
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lars Pearson (4 October 2005). You want to know the few-char!. The Faction Paradox Community.
- ↑ Lawrence Miles (3 January 2007). The Beasthouse. Archived from the original on 25 September 2007.
- ↑ Lars Pearson (14 September 2006). Faction News. Mad Norwegian Press. Archived from the original on 27 September 2008.
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