Pre-narrative Briefings (short story)

Pre-narrative Briefings formed part of the linking material of The Book of the Enemy. Each was a briefing in the form of a quote of varying length from a person or document, chosen to accompany the following story.

Of the nineteen parts, two were written by Michael Simpson and Lesley Brakken, and the remaining seventeen were written by the anthology editor Simon Bucher-Jones and attributed to fictional individuals. Biographies for these individuals appeared interspersed among the real author biographies at the end of the book; several of them were referenced within the corresponding briefings.

Briefings

Letter	Attribution	Accompanying story	Author
0	Entarodora and Irma Ebbinghaus	Subjective Interlock	Simon Bucher-Jones
A	Irma Ebbinghaus	The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A
B	Oracle of Shakespeare	Cobweb and Ivory
C	Michael Simpson	The Book of the Enemy	Michael Simpson
D	Irma Ebbinghaus	T.memeticus: A Morphology	Simon Bucher-Jones
E	Entarodora	T.memeticus: A Morphology
F	Robert Scarratt	The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale
G	The Writer's Yearbook 2019	A Bloody (And Public) Domaine
H	Robert Scarratt	Life-Cycle
I	Entarodora	First Draft
J	Alain Chartier	Eyes
K	Xenaria Who Survived	We are the Enemy
L	Marko Marz	Timeshare
M	Malachi Yarrow	A Choice of Houses
N	Book of Lies	Houses of Cards
O	Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox	Houses of Cards
P	Psychiatrist	The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy
R	Gen Volst	No Enemy But Despair
Q	Lesley Drakken	The Map and the Spider	Lesley Drakken
S	X-12	The Map and the Spider	Simon Bucher-Jones

References

Scarratt rejects the term "lesser species" as pejorative.

Notes

Pre-narrative Briefing Q appears between R and S.
The pre-narrative briefings were followed by one "Post-Narrative Briefing", the final part of Subjective Interlock.

Continuity

Irma Ebbinghouse notes that agents of the Enemy are referred to as "Reps". (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)
Michael Simpson's list of powers that are not the Enemy, but have tried to take advantage of the Great Houses' paranoia, include the Mal'akh, (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, The Book of the War, et al) the end point summoned into the City of the Saved, (PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War, God Encompasses) mutineers from the Sixth Wave, (PROSE: The Book of the War) a progressive timeship, (PROSE: Toy Story, AUDIO: The Shadow Play, et al) and xenophobic mutants in personal war machines. (TV: The Daleks, et al)
Robert Scarratt is "now definitely" dead. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)