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* "Design Specs for Advanced Users", purporting to reveal the "secret pathway running through the whole volume", were published on the Faction Paradox 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"). | * "Design Specs for Advanced Users", purporting to reveal the "secret pathway running through the whole volume", were published on the Faction Paradox 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"). | ||
* Lawrence Miles briefly considered releasing an expanded version of ''The Book of the War'' on CD-ROM.<ref name="SBJunused">[https://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2006/12/book-of-war-unused-material.html Book Of The War unused material]</ref> Though [[Mad Norwegian Press]]' other Faction Paradox series books would be later be released as ebooks, CEO [[Lars Pearson]] said that the number of permissions that would be needed from the contributors made it untenable.<ref name="ebook discussion">[http://gallifreybase.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5668976&postcount=26 Re: Faction Paradox (Non-BBC) - Your Favourites]</ref> | * Lawrence Miles briefly considered releasing an expanded version of ''The Book of the War'' on CD-ROM.<ref name="SBJunused">[https://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2006/12/book-of-war-unused-material.html Book Of The War unused material]</ref> Though [[Mad Norwegian Press]]' other Faction Paradox series books would be later be released as ebooks, CEO [[Lars Pearson]] said that the number of permissions that would be needed from the contributors made it untenable.<ref name="ebook discussion">[http://gallifreybase.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5668976&postcount=26 Re: Faction Paradox (Non-BBC) - Your Favourites]</ref> | ||
* The entry for the [[City of the Saved]] quotes a traveller's lyrical description of the City as "an urban sprawl the size of a spiral galaxy… a fabulous shimmering lightscape nonillions of miles across". This traveller was intended to be [[Iris Wildthyme]].<ref name="iriscity">[http://www.infinitarian.com/iriscity.html Iris Wildthyme in the City of the Saved]</ref> | |||
* Miles considered using the [[Sontaran]]s with permission from the [[Robert Holmes]] estate, but decided it wasn't necessary.<ref name="ebook discussion" /> | * Miles considered using the [[Sontaran]]s with permission from the [[Robert Holmes]] estate, but decided it wasn't necessary.<ref name="ebook discussion" /> | ||
=== Who wrote what? === | === Who wrote what? === | ||
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* [[Ian McIntire]] introduced [[Carmen Yeh]] in his unlicensed short story ''Schrodinger's Botanist'' for the charity anthology ''Perfect Timing''. The related entries were co-written with [[Mad Norwegian Press]] CEO [[Lars Pearson]].<ref name="BotW Question" /> | * [[Ian McIntire]] introduced [[Carmen Yeh]] in his unlicensed short story ''Schrodinger's Botanist'' for the charity anthology ''Perfect Timing''. The related entries were co-written with [[Mad Norwegian Press]] CEO [[Lars Pearson]].<ref name="BotW Question" /> | ||
* [[Mags L. Halliday]] wrote about [[Anastasia Romanov|Anastasia]] and the [[Thirteen-Day Republic]].<ref name="BotW Question" /> She later used Cousin [[Octavia Sutherland|Octavia]] in ''[[Warring States (novel)|Warring States]]''. | * [[Mags L. Halliday]] wrote about [[Anastasia Romanov|Anastasia]] and the [[Thirteen-Day Republic]].<ref name="BotW Question" /> She later used Cousin [[Octavia Sutherland|Octavia]] in ''[[Warring States (novel)|Warring States]]''. | ||
* [[Philip Purser-Hallard]] wrote the articles concerning the [[City of the Saved]],<ref name="SWWW">[http://www.infinitarian.com/botwswww.html "So, Who Wrote What?"]</ref> which he had developed for his ultimately-unproduced ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'' novel ''[[Iris Wildthyme in the City of the Saved (novel)|Iris Wildthyme in the City of the Saved]]''.<ref | * [[Philip Purser-Hallard]] wrote the articles concerning the [[City of the Saved]],<ref name="SWWW">[http://www.infinitarian.com/botwswww.html "So, Who Wrote What?"]</ref> which he had developed for his ultimately-unproduced ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|Iris Wildthyme]]'' novel ''[[Iris Wildthyme in the City of the Saved (novel)|Iris Wildthyme in the City of the Saved]]''.<ref name="iriscity" /> He would later revisit the City in his novel ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'' and in [[Obverse Books]]' [[The City of the Saved (series)|''City of the Saved'' anthology series]]. He also wrote the entry for [[House Mirraflex]],<ref>[https://twitter.com/purserhallard/status/926070499729428480 purserhallard on Twitter]</ref> though Miles thoroughly overhauled it in editing. Purser-Hallard commented that he had not written the articles on [[Wallachia]], [[Michael Brookhaven]], [[Grigori Rasputin]], or the [[Spiral Politic]].<ref name="SWWW" /> | ||
* [[Kelly Hale]], who herself is part [[Native American]], wrote the entries concerning Cousin [[Belial (The Book of the War)|Belial]] and the Faction's [[Remote]] experiments on the [[Native American]] warrior tribes. She would later revisit Native America and [[Wounded Knee]] in ''[[Project Thunderbird (short story)|Project Thunderbird]]''. | * [[Kelly Hale]], who herself is part [[Native American]], wrote the entries concerning Cousin [[Belial (The Book of the War)|Belial]] and the Faction's [[Remote]] experiments on the [[Native American]] warrior tribes. She would later revisit Native America and [[Wounded Knee]] in ''[[Project Thunderbird (short story)|Project Thunderbird]]''. | ||
* [[Jonathan Dennis]], who previously wrote the story ''The Hollywood Life'' for the [[Charity publications|charity anthology]] ''Perfect Timing 2'', created [[Faction Hollywood]] for ''The Book of the War''. However, those entries also included major contributions from at least three other writers,<ref name="BotW Question" /> including Lawrence Miles<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031218032809/http://www.factionparadox.co.uk:80/interview1.htm Lawrence Miles on Language, Literature and Lying to the Audience]</ref> and Simon Bucher-Jones.<ref>[https://the-voice-of-light-city.tumblr.com/post/171601681800/rassilon-imprimatur-i-think-the-funniest-thing The funniest thing about Faction Paradox]</ref> Dennis would later reuse Faction Hollywood in his story ''[[Remake/Remodel (short story)|Remake/Remodel]]'' and co-write ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'' with Bucher-Jones. | * [[Jonathan Dennis]], who previously wrote the story ''The Hollywood Life'' for the [[Charity publications|charity anthology]] ''Perfect Timing 2'', created [[Faction Hollywood]] for ''The Book of the War''. However, those entries also included major contributions from at least three other writers,<ref name="BotW Question" /> including Lawrence Miles<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20031218032809/http://www.factionparadox.co.uk:80/interview1.htm Lawrence Miles on Language, Literature and Lying to the Audience]</ref> and Simon Bucher-Jones.<ref>[https://the-voice-of-light-city.tumblr.com/post/171601681800/rassilon-imprimatur-i-think-the-funniest-thing The funniest thing about Faction Paradox]</ref> Dennis would later reuse Faction Hollywood in his story ''[[Remake/Remodel (short story)|Remake/Remodel]]'' and co-write ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'' with Bucher-Jones. | ||
