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'''''Pre-narrative Briefings''''' formed part of the linking material of ''[[The Book of the Enemy (anthology)|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. | '''''Pre-narrative Briefings''''' formed part of the linking material of ''[[The Book of the Enemy (anthology)|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. | ||
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|C || [[Michael Simpson]] || ''[[The Book of the Enemy (short story)|The Book of the Enemy]]'' || [[Michael Simpson (writer)|Michael Simpson]] | |C || [[Michael Simpson]] || ''[[The Book of the Enemy (short story)|The Book of the Enemy]]'' || [[Michael Simpson (writer)|Michael Simpson]] | ||
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|D || [[Irma Ebbinghaus]] || rowspan=2|''[[T.memeticus: A Morphology (short story)|T.memeticus: A Morphology]]'' || rowspan= | |D || [[Irma Ebbinghaus]] || rowspan=2|''[[T.memeticus: A Morphology (short story)|T.memeticus: A Morphology]]'' || rowspan=13|[[Simon Bucher-Jones]] | ||
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|E || [[Entarodora]] | |E || [[Entarodora]] | ||
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|O || [[Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox]] | |O || [[Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox]] | ||
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|P || [[Psychiatrist (Pre-narrative Briefings)|Psychiatrist]] || ''[[The Enemy | |P || [[Psychiatrist (Pre-narrative Briefings)|Psychiatrist]] || ''[[The Enemy - The Hole in Everything (short story)|The Enemy - The Hole in Everything]]'' | ||
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| | |Q || [[Lesley Drakken]] || ''[[The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy (short story)|The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy]]''||[[Lesley Drakken]] | ||
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| | |R || [[Gen Volst]] || ''[[No Enemy But Despair (short story)|No Enemy But Despair]]''||rowspan=2|[[Simon Bucher-Jones]] | ||
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|S || [[X-12]] || [[ | |S || [[X-12]] || [[The Map and the Spiders (short story)|The Map and the Spiders]] | ||
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Irma Ebbinghaus and [[Entarodora]] agree that listening to records obtained from [[Faction Paradox]] in understand the enemy is important, yet disagree on how much emphasis to place on them, with Irma seeing them as suspect, and Entarodora viewing them as valuable pieces of insight from a viewpoint outside your own. | Irma Ebbinghaus and [[Entarodora]] agree that listening to records obtained from [[Faction Paradox]] in understand the enemy is important, yet disagree on how much emphasis to place on them, with Irma seeing them as suspect, and Entarodora viewing them as valuable pieces of insight from a viewpoint outside your own. | ||
===Briefing F=== | |||
[[Robert Scarratt]] observes that comedy, not a massively important part of the Houses' culture, still was important to that of the humanic cultures, and so would pop up in briefings from time to time. | |||
===Briefing G=== | |||
An excerpt from the [[Writer's Yearbook, 2019]] worries about what it will look like when neural nets begin to actually write better than humans, and if humans can actually understand what they will create. It also asks what sort of monsters these neural nets will create to rival dragons and Nosferatu. | |||
===Briefing H=== | |||
Scarratt states that as members of the Great Houses have always upheld themselves to be beyond the ravages of time, the type of encounter with the Enemy most disturbing to them is what humans term "body horror". | |||
===Briefing I=== | |||
Entarodora says that instead of looking at the differences in the briefings, you need to look for what the briefings are not saying, cannot say. If this is what can be expressed, what is the inexpressible actually like? | |||
===Briefing J=== | |||
A poem is replicated in full. | |||
===Briefing K=== | |||
[[Xenaria|Xenaria Who Survived]] states that you can fight what you can understand, but not what is ineffable, and so they speak of it in metaphor in fear that it might be unable to be understood. | |||
===Briefing L=== | |||
[[Marko Marz]], from his book ''Retroeconomics and Timeschism for Dummies'', discusses the collateral impact of the War from an economic perspective, and how the New Spiral Order suggest that every sapient has the ability to travel in time or none do. | |||
===Briefing M=== | |||
[[Malachi Yarrow]], in ''The Missing Hour Occupancy – Hauntings of the Channel Islands'' recounts that on the isle of Jersey there is a villa with a sculpture of a peacock. A missing hour exists from the change in timezone as the island changed hands between the British and German, and the despairing spirit of Nazi soldiers waiting silently in the labyrinths below is still felt by the island to this day. | |||
===Briefing N & O=== | |||
''Aphorisms of the Enemy: The [[Book of Lies]]'' has a series of quotes taken from it, while the ''[[Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox]]'' has a section wherein Grandfather Paradox talks about how it would be more fun if events weren't linear, but out of order, or all at once, and the lesser species aren't so lesser after all. | |||
===Briefing P=== | |||
A [[Psychiatrist (Pre-narrative Briefings)|Psychiatrist]] recounts that a patient is suffering from paranoid delusion, that they think they're in a hospital suffering from PTSD after taking part in a 'War'. Various accounts are given of multiple things they've done in said War. | |||
===Briefing Q=== | |||
Another poem is replicated in full. | |||
===Briefing R=== | |||
Professor [[Gen Volst]] of the BlackSky institute informs his colleagues that their institute is broke, and proposes a new experiment, entangling particles not only in space but in time. Furthermore, he suggests, that they use this to entangle details of lottery numbers backwards in time in order to buy tickets. | |||
===Briefing S=== | |||
[[X-12]] was given a posting in 1880s Germany and was captured by the Enemy and interrogated, before [[Regen-inf]] extracted him. | |||
===Post-Narrative Briefing=== | |||
See: [[Subjective_Interlock_(short_story)#Subjective_Injection_Omega|Subjective Injection Omega]]. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* ''Pre-narrative Briefing Q'' appears between ''R'' and ''S''. | * ''Pre-narrative Briefing Q'' appears between ''R'' and ''S''. This is fixed in the ebook version. | ||
* The pre-narrative briefings were followed by one "Post-Narrative Briefing", the final part of ''[[Subjective Interlock (short story)|Subjective Interlock]]''. | * The pre-narrative briefings were followed by one "Post-Narrative Briefing", the final part of ''[[Subjective Interlock (short story)|Subjective Interlock]]''. | ||
* In November 2017, Simon Bucher-Jones posted on his blog a cut excerpt from ''The Book of the Enemy''. In it, the series of briefings is said to address "the essential problem of ENEMY IDENTIFICTION".<ref>[https://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2017/11/material-that-didnt-make-cut-1.html Material that Didn't Make the Cut #1]</ref> | * In November 2017, Simon Bucher-Jones posted on his blog a cut excerpt from ''The Book of the Enemy''. In it, the series of briefings is said to address "the essential problem of ENEMY IDENTIFICTION".<ref>[https://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2017/11/material-that-didnt-make-cut-1.html Material that Didn't Make the Cut #1]</ref> | ||
*What [[Gen Volst]] is suggesting in our world is physically impossible for a myriad of reasons, not least of which that he suggests entanglement can transfer information faster than light, which is a violation of the {{w|no-communication theorem}}, a mathematical impossibility. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
