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|writer = {{il|[[Lawrence Miles]]|[[Simon Bucher-Jones]]|[[Daniel O'Mahony]]|[[Ian McIntire]]|[[Mags L. Halliday]]|[[Helen Fayle]]|[[Philip Purser-Hallard]]|[[Kelly Hale]]|[[Jonathan Dennis]]|[[Mark Clapham]]|[[Lars Pearson]] (uncredited)<ref name="BotW Question"> | |writer = {{il|[[Lawrence Miles]]|[[Simon Bucher-Jones]]|[[Daniel O'Mahony]]|[[Ian McIntire]]|[[Mags L. Halliday]]|[[Helen Fayle]]|[[Philip Purser-Hallard]]|[[Kelly Hale]]|[[Jonathan Dennis]]|[[Mark Clapham]]|[[Lars Pearson]] (uncredited)<ref name="BotW Question">{{cite web | ||
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|editor = [[Lawrence Miles]] | |editor = [[Lawrence Miles]] | ||
|publisher = Mad Norwegian Press | |publisher = Mad Norwegian Press | ||
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'''''The Book of the War''''' was the first novel in the ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' series. | '''''The Book of the War''''' was the first novel in the ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' series. | ||
Edited by [[Lawrence Miles]] and written collaboratively by more than ten authors, ''The Book of the War'' was formatted like an encyclopedia, with a number of stories spread across multiple alphabetically-sorted entries. In each entry, some words were emphasised in bold to point to other entries with that name, enabling the reader to jump around the book and read related entries. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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=== Who wrote what? === | === Who wrote what? === | ||
[[Simon Bucher-Jones]], [[Daniel O'Mahony]], [[Ian McIntire]], [[Mags L. Halliday]], [[Helen Fayle]], [[Philip Purser-Hallard]], [[Kelly Hale]], [[Jonathan Dennis]], [[Mark Clapham]], and [[Lars Pearson]]<ref name="BotW Question" /> all contributed material to the book. Each contributors mostly worked on their stories independently, only discovering [[Lawrence Miles]]'s added intersections with other stories once the book was released. It was deliberately kept unclear as to which authors contributed which entries, but later releases provided some clues. | |||
* As editor, [[Lawrence Miles]] was responsible not only for writing many entries but also for rewriting and interweaving the other writers' contributions. 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]] was responsible not only for writing many entries but also for rewriting and interweaving the other writers' contributions. 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]] contributed slightly more than any other writer besides 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 "The 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)|Leviathans]].<ref>[http://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2014/01/shard-apocrypha-brakespeare.html Brakespeare Initialisation]</ref> The [[Order of the White Peacock]] also appeared in ''[[The Book of the Enemy (anthology)|The Book of the Enemy]]'' and early drafts of ''The Brakespeare Voyage''.<ref>[https://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2014/01/shard-apocrypha-brakespeare.html Shard Apocrypha - Brakespeare Initialisation]</ref> | * [[Simon Bucher-Jones]] contributed slightly more than any other writer besides 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 "The 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)|Leviathans]].<ref>[http://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2014/01/shard-apocrypha-brakespeare.html Brakespeare Initialisation]</ref> The [[Order of the White Peacock]] also appeared in ''[[The Book of the Enemy (anthology)|The Book of the Enemy]]'' and early drafts of ''The Brakespeare Voyage''.<ref>[https://simonbjones.blogspot.com/2014/01/shard-apocrypha-brakespeare.html Shard Apocrypha - Brakespeare Initialisation]</ref> | ||
