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Marking the first five decades of the conflict, [[The Book of the War|THE BOOK OF THE WAR]] is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the [[Spiral Politic]], from the beginning of recordable [[time]] to the fall of [[human]]ity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past… | Marking the first five decades of the conflict, [[The Book of the War|THE BOOK OF THE WAR]] is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the [[Spiral Politic]], from the beginning of recordable [[time]] to the fall of [[human]]ity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past… | ||
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[[War in Heaven|The War]] so far (in highlights); the location of the [[caldera|exact centre]] of [[history]]; the [[Analytical engine|lo-tech way]] to break into the [[Eleven-Day Empire]]; the truth about [[gravity spider]]s; the dangers of investigating [[Violent Unknown Event]]s; the art of breeding your own [[TARDIS|timeship]]; a short history of the [[posthuman|various ends of humanity]]; the fate of [[Grandfather Paradox|the Grandfather]]'s Arm; the secrets of removing yourself from history while still leaving yourself free to interfere; a [[Shift (Alien Bodies)|brief interruption]] from the future; [[City of the Saved|where]] to meet every human being who ever lived; how to bring your world to the attention of the [[Spiral Politic]] using [[Forest of the Impaled|23,000 corpses]]; why the War-time powers never [[Cult of Celebrity Death|recruit celebrities]]; the problems of running [[House of the Rising Sun|a time-active brothel]]; on telling the difference between the afterlife and the trailer; [[Broken Remote|banality]] as a weapon of War; the Faction Paradox guide to [[Faction Hollywood|Hollywood]]; and how the [[Sixth Wave]] revealed the truth about [[the enemy]] without even trying. | |||
== Entries == | == Entries == | ||
This page lists the entries in the order specified in the "Design Specs for Advanced Users", which were published on a hidden page of the Faction Paradox website,<ref name="DesignSpecs"> | This page lists the entries in the order specified in the "Design Specs for Advanced Users", which were published on a hidden page of the Faction Paradox website,<ref name="DesignSpecs">{{cite web | ||
|archiveurl=http://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=faction:factionbook1reading | |||
|archivedate=17 August 2003 | |||
|title=Design Specs for Advanced Users | |||
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030817135526/http://www.factionparadox.co.uk/bookroute.htm | |||
}}</ref> rather than alphabetically as they appear in the book. Two errors were deliberately included in the "Design Specs": the nonexistent entry "Scarratt's Group" in "The A-Z of the War"; and the exclusion of an "Easter egg" entry which was not linked to in other entries and therefore unfindable except by reading in alphabetical order. | |||
* [[Parablox]] | * [[Parablox]] | ||
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* The [[Celestis]] | * The [[Celestis]] | ||
* [[Faction Paradox]] | * [[Faction Paradox]] | ||
** Inset: The Faction Paradox "Family" | ** Inset: [[Blood Ties: Inside the Grandfather's House (short story)|The Faction Paradox "Family"]] | ||
* The [[Remote]] | * The [[Remote]] | ||
* [[Lesser species|Lesser Species]] | * [[Lesser species|Lesser Species]] | ||
