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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first novel in the ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' series | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the first novel in the ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' series. | ||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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* [[The Fat]] | * [[The Fat]] | ||
* The [[Gauntlet (The Book of the War)|Gauntlet]] | * The [[Gauntlet (The Book of the War)|Gauntlet]] | ||
* [[GCI Processor]] | * [[GCI processor|GCI Processor]] | ||
* [[Hollow Spectacular]]s | * [[Hollow spectacular|Hollow Spectacular]]s | ||
** Inset: Brookhaven's [[Mujun: The Ghost Kingdom|Ghost Kingdom]]: The Six Central Characters | ** Inset: Brookhaven's [[Mujun: The Ghost Kingdom|Ghost Kingdom]]: The Six Central Characters | ||
* The [[Hollywood Bowl Shooting]] | * The [[Hollywood Bowl shooting|Hollywood Bowl Shooting]] | ||
* The [[House of the Seven Gables]] | * The [[House of the Seven Gables]] | ||
* The [[Mount Usu Duel]] | * The [[Mount Usu duel|Mount Usu Duel]] | ||
* "[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]" | * "[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]" | ||
* The [[North Los Angeles Cabal]] | * The [[North Los Angeles Cabal]] | ||
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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", purporting to reveal the "secret pathway running through the whole volume", were published on the Faction Paradox website, and they form | * "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 the basis for the organisation of the entries on this page. The Specs specified that their 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"). As it stands, "The A-Z of the War" needs both the nonexistent "Scarratt's Group" entry and the immediately-following "[[Jungle child|Jungle Child]]ren" entry (grouped under the subsequent "Houses and Orders" section) in order to truly have one entry for every letter of the alphabet. | ||
* 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 | * 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'' 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> | * 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" /> | ||
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=== Who wrote what? === | === Who wrote what? === | ||
Contributors to the book mostly worked on their stories independently, only discovering the added intersections with other stories once the book was released. It was deliberately kept unclear as to which authors contributed which articles, but later releases provided some clues. | Contributors to the book mostly worked on their stories independently, only discovering the added intersections with other stories once the book was released. It was deliberately kept unclear as to which authors contributed which articles, but later releases provided some clues. | ||
* As editor, [[Lawrence Miles]] rewrote many or all entries. The "Faction Paradox Family" section was credited to him in the book's notes, and it had been previously released 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> | * As editor, [[Lawrence Miles]] rewrote many or all entries. The "Faction Paradox Family" section was credited to him in the book's notes, and it had been previously released 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> | ||
* [[Simon Bucher-Jones]] wrote slightly more than any other contributor to the Book, with the exception of Lawrence Miles. The final edition of ''The Book of the War'' included at least one entry by him for every letter of the alphabet, including "Lords Celestial", which was interrupted by [[Shift (Alien Bodies)|the Shift]];<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/ask-the-author-sbj-t716.html#p4629 Ask the Author SBJ]</ref> the "Design Specs for Advanced Users" included a potentially-related "A-Z of the War" section that featured entries for many concepts | * [[Simon Bucher-Jones]] wrote slightly more than any other contributor to the Book, with the exception of Lawrence Miles. The final edition of ''The Book of the War'' included at least one entry by him for every letter of the alphabet, including "Lords Celestial", which was interrupted by [[Shift (Alien Bodies)|the Shift]];<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/ask-the-author-sbj-t716.html#p4629 Ask the Author SBJ]</ref> the "Design Specs for Advanced Users" included a potentially-related "A-Z of the War" section that featured entries for many concepts also explored in his books ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'' and ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'', such as [[Robert Scarratt]]<ref>Credited to Bucher-Jones in the acknowledgments of ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]''</ref> and the [[Leviathan (The Book of the War)|Leviathan]]s.<ref>[http://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2014/01/shard-apocrypha-brakespeare.html Brakespeare Initialisation]</ref> | ||
* [[Daniel O'Mahony]] was narrowly in third place for words written for the book. He wrote far more for ''The Book of the War'' than ended up in the final draft, and Bucher-Jones only overtook him in the final edit.<ref>[https://removalvan.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pantechnicon_issue_eight.pdf Pantechnicon Issue Eight]</ref> He drew heavily from his rejected [[BBC Books]] novel proposals, saying "the entire plot of one outline is embedded in there somewhere, while a lot of the background for another became a major part of the Faction universe."<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/author-author-dom-t914-s10.html#p5756 Author! Author! DOM]</ref> The planet [[Lethe (The Parliament of Rats)|Lethe]], mentioned in the entry for the [[Lethean Campaign]], previously appeared in his Doctor Who short story ''[[The Parliament of Rats (short story)|The Parliament of Rats]]'', itself a scene from a BBC novel proposal.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20061213205116/http://www.gallifreyone.com:80/interview.php?id=omahony O'Mahony Gallifrey One Interview]</ref> He would later use [[babel]]s, [[Thessalia]], and the [[Order of the Weal]] in his novel ''[[Newtons Sleep (novel)|Newtons Sleep]]''. He stated that he'd had no involvement in [[Michael Brookhaven]]'s filmography.<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/brookhaven-a-filmography-t534.html Brookhaven: A Filmography]</ref> | * [[Daniel O'Mahony]] was narrowly in third place for words written for the book. He wrote far more for ''The Book of the War'' than ended up in the final draft, and Bucher-Jones only overtook him in the final edit.<ref>[https://removalvan.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pantechnicon_issue_eight.pdf Pantechnicon Issue Eight]</ref> He drew heavily from his rejected [[BBC Books]] novel proposals, saying "the entire plot of one outline is embedded in there somewhere, while a lot of the background for another became a major part of the Faction universe."<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/author-author-dom-t914-s10.html#p5756 Author! Author! DOM]</ref> The planet [[Lethe (The Parliament of Rats)|Lethe]], mentioned in the entry for the [[Lethean Campaign]], previously appeared in his Doctor Who short story ''[[The Parliament of Rats (short story)|The Parliament of Rats]]'', itself a scene from a BBC novel proposal.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20061213205116/http://www.gallifreyone.com:80/interview.php?id=omahony O'Mahony Gallifrey One Interview]</ref> He would later use [[babel]]s, [[Thessalia]], and the [[Order of the Weal]] in his novel ''[[Newtons Sleep (novel)|Newtons Sleep]]''. He stated that he'd had no involvement in [[Michael Brookhaven]]'s filmography.<ref>[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/factionparadox/brookhaven-a-filmography-t534.html Brookhaven: A Filmography]</ref> | ||
* [[Ian McIntire]] introduced [[Carmen Yeh]] in his unlicensed short story ''Schrödinger's Botanist'' for the 1998 [[charity publications|charity anthology]] ''Perfect Timing''. The related entries were co-written with [[Mad Norwegian Press]] CEO [[Lars Pearson]].<ref name="BotW Question" /> He also contributed to the entry for [[the War King]], including the detail of the unfolded [[hypercube]] on his desk, which was intended as a link to one of his other entries, which was ultimately rejected.<ref>[http://big-finish-sketches.tumblr.com/post/177895970788/id-a-facebook-post-by-ian-mcintire-which-says-i A Facebook post by Ian McIntire]</ref> | * [[Ian McIntire]] introduced [[Carmen Yeh]] in his unlicensed short story ''Schrödinger's Botanist'' for the 1998 [[charity publications|charity anthology]] ''Perfect Timing''. The related entries were co-written with [[Mad Norwegian Press]] CEO [[Lars Pearson]].<ref name="BotW Question" /> He also contributed to the entry for [[the War King]], including the detail of the unfolded [[hypercube]] on his desk, which was intended as a link to one of his other entries, which was ultimately rejected.<ref>[http://big-finish-sketches.tumblr.com/post/177895970788/id-a-facebook-post-by-ian-mcintire-which-says-i A Facebook post by Ian McIntire]</ref> | ||
