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+ | ======The Faction Paradox Website====== | ||
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+ | =====The Story so Far===== | ||
+ | * [[FactionDoctor|Faction Paradox and the Doctor]] | ||
+ | * [[FactionKnown|Faction Paradox, as Much as It's Known]] | ||
+ | * [[FactionEmpire|What is the Eleven-Day Empire?]] | ||
+ | * [[FactionArmoury|The Armoury]] | ||
+ | * [[FactionBlood|Blood Ties]]: Inside the Grandfather' | ||
+ | * [[FactionTimeline|Crimes Against History]]: The Definitive" | ||
+ | * [[FactionArmour|Faction Armour]]: Some Design Notes | ||
+ | * [[FactionTour|The Eleven-Day Empire]]:A Tour of the Capital | ||
+ | * [[FactionInterview|The Interview]]: | ||
+ | * [[FactionAncestor|My Review of THE ANCESTOR CELL]] by Lawrence Miles | ||
+ | * [[FactionFinal|The Potential Last Ever Doctor Who Interview with Lawrence Miles]] | ||
+ | * [[FactionCoda|Coda]]: | ||
+ | =====Images===== | ||
+ | * {{FactionWebsite: | ||
+ | * {{FactionWebsite: | ||
+ | * {{FactionWebsite: | ||
+ | * {{RulesFactionParadox: | ||
+ | =====The Books===== | ||
+ | ===Non-Faction Books=== | ||
+ | These books predate the first Faction Paradox book, The Book of the War. Within these books are mentions of the Faction or the agents of the Faction :- | ||
+ | * **Alien Bodies** - Lawrence Miles (1997) | ||
+ | * **Unnatural History** - Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman (1999) | ||
+ | * **Interference: | ||
+ | * **Interference: | ||
+ | * **The Taking of Planet 5** - Simon Bucher Jones and Mark Clapham (1999) | ||
+ | * **The Shadows of Avalon** - Paul Cornell (2000) | ||
+ | * **The Ancestor Cell** - Stephen Cole and Peter Anghelides (2000). (Lawrence Miles has stated that the events of The Ancestor Cell will be ignored in all of the Faction Paradox spin-offs.) | ||
+ | * **The Adventuress of Henrietta Street** - Lawrence Miles (2001). (The book does not feature the Faction, but introduces the character of Sabbath who subsequently made appearances in the Faction Paradox audio adventures.) | ||
+ | * **The Gallifrey Chronicles** - Lance Parkin (2005). This is not part of the Faction Paradox story arc, but further explores the destruction of Gallifrey and Grandfather Paradox. | ||
+ | ===Faction Books=== | ||
+ | ====The Book of the War==== | ||
+ | Published by Mad Norwegian Press: http:// | ||
+ | * [[FactionBook1|The Book of the War]] \\ The Definitive Primer to the Faction Paradox Universe | ||
+ | ===The Great Houses=== | ||
+ | Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the Spiral Politic. | ||
+ | ===The Enemy=== | ||
+ | Not so much an army as a hostile new kind of history. So ambitious it can re-write worlds, so complex that even calling it by its name seems to underestimate it. | ||
+ | ===Faction Paradox=== | ||
+ | Renegades, ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers, | ||
+ | ===The War=== | ||
+ | A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: " | ||
+ | Marking the first five decades of the conflict, The Book of the War is a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of 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. | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | ====This Town Will Never Let Us Go==== | ||
+ | Published by Mad Norwegian Press: http:// | ||
+ | * [[FactionBook2|This Town Will Never Let Us Go]] \\ The First Full-Length Novel in the Ongoing Faction Paradox Series | ||
+ | |||
+ | From up here... you can see it all, hear it all, taste most of it and feel the rest when the electric lights and the satellite signals prickle against your skin: the town, from midnight to six, marked out in headlights and the flash-fire of a culture in War-time. Seance-messages written in the patterns of the road signs, and ghost-transmissions scrambled into the background noise of the traffic. Animal scent-signals from the fried food stands. All describing something, buried under the tarmac and the street-geometry. | ||
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+ | Down there, a girl in a fake-bone mask is working on a ritual to bring it to the surface. A popular performing artiste with a navel stud and serious identity problems is finding herself being stalked - literally - by her own image. An ambulance crewman is about to find his own way of getting involved in the War. And bringing them all together, in one neat little urban mythology, there' | ||
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+ | A study in ritual, politics, pop culture, time-travel and urban horror, This Town Will Never Let Us Go also happens to be the first book in the ongoing Faction Paradox novel line. The series continues in 2004 with Of the City of the Saved... by Phil Purser-Hallard, | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | ====Of the City of the Saved...==== | ||
+ | Published by Mad Norwegian Press: http:// | ||
+ | * [[FactionBook3|Of the City of the Saved...]] \\ The New Novel in the Ongoing Faction Paradox Series | ||
+ | |||
+ | For humanity, the War is over. | ||
+ | |||
+ | We all remember Resurrection Day. Even now, three centuries later, we cannot forget that awakening: our bewilderment, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Reborn in our countless immortal bodies, we were given the freedom of the City of the Saved. A single conurbation as broad as a spiral galaxy, she has been our sanctuary from the ravages of the War. That monstrous conflict between inhuman cultures cannot touch us here: we live our afterlives beyond the end of time, in perfect safety. | ||
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+ | We may be certain, therefore, that these rumours of a murder (the brutal stabbing of a City Councillor, no less!) are nothing more than lurid fabrications. The supposition that the murder weapon is missing, or that it could have been - as hysterical conjecture has claimed - a " | ||
+ | the City, is equally absurd. The idea that a guerrilla war has already begun in one of our less harmonious enclaves need not be dignified with refutation. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Please go about your business, Citizens, as normal. We are perfectly safe, here in the City. | ||
+ | Humanity has never been safer. | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | ====Warlords of Utopia==== | ||
+ | Published by Mad Norwegian Press: http:// | ||
+ | * [[FactionBook4|Warlords of Utopia]] \\ Rome never fell. Hitler won. Now they are at war. Marcus Americanius Scriptor' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Scriptor' | ||
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+ | This exciting new translation of a classic work of military history is accessible to new readers and existing students of the War alike. | ||
+ | |||
+ | This is the third original Faction Paradox novel. | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | ====Warring States==== | ||
+ | Published by Mad Norwegian Press: http:// | ||
+ | * [[FactionBook5|Warring States]] \\ Takes place in China, 1900, and concerns Cousin Octavia (the Faction Paradox member responsible for the fall of the Thirteen-Day Republic, as told in The Book of the War). | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | ====Dead Romance==== | ||
+ | Published by Mad Norwegian Press: http:// | ||
+ | * [[FactionBook6|Dead Romance]] \\ Widely acclaimed as a sci-fi epic, Dead Romance by Lawrence Miles has been out of print for a few years but finds a new home in the Mad Norwegian stable. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Initially released by Virgin Publishing, the book features Christine Summerfield, | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | ====Erasing Sherlock==== | ||
+ | Published by Mad Norwegian Press: http:// | ||
+ | * [[FactionBook7|Erasing Sherlock]] \\ On a fine October afternoon in 1882, Rose Donnelly, maid-of-all-work, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Through narrow alleyways and cobbled lanes wedged between Whitechapel, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Still, Rose learns he has a bolt hole somewhere in Spitalfields. He speaks a smattering of Yiddish. He has a talent for picking pockets. He's a genius with the deceptively simple disguise. | ||
+ | |||
+ | It's a thrilling start. It's for her doctoral thesis. Or so she believes. | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | ====Newton' | ||
+ | Published by Random Static: http:// | ||
+ | * [[FactionBook8|Newton' | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | =====The Recordings===== | ||
+ | ====The Faction Paradox Protocols==== | ||
+ | Published by BBV: http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | Audio CD Productions from BBV | ||
+ | Volume 1: The Eleven-Day Empire", | ||
+ | - **[[FactionAudio1|The Eleven-Day Empire]]**: 'The doomed end up dancing on the walls while the Faction prepares for war...' | ||
+ | - **[[FactionAudio2|The Shadow Play]]**: 'One Great House falls while another one rises...' | ||
+ | - **[[FactionAudio3|Sabbath Dei]]**: 'An arrangement' | ||
+ | ' | ||
+ | 'On September the fourteenth, 1752, the English lost eleven days out of their calendar. It had to happen, sooner or later. England' | ||
+ | 'Those great thinkers I mentioned probably wouldn' | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | - **[[FactionAudio4|In the Year of the Cat]]**: 'New alliances are made while the Faction suffers one more casualty of War...' | ||
+ | - **[[FactionAudio5|Movers]]**: | ||
+ | - **[[FactionAudio6|A Labyrinth of Histories]]**: | ||
+ | |||
+ | 'Well, that's not really a big surprise, is it? Out of all the Great Houses... the Great Houses being the ones who've made it their business to look after space-time in general, the ones who've insisted on running history behind the scenes since before us poor human sods crawled up out of the oceans... out of all the Great Houses, Faction Paradox was the only one that really knew how to step over the line. I mean, while the others were all busy with their time machines and their nice shiny bits of technology, the Faction was busy calling on the spirits of eternal darkness and sacrificing raw virgins, just for a laugh. So when the Faction' | ||
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+ | 'And of course, that was where we all lived. In the Eleven-Day Empire. In a little ghost-city that back in the real world would have been called London. In a timezone all to ourselves, where the buildings were made out of shadows and the sky was the colour of blood twenty-four hours a day. Cut off from the other Houses, and cut off from the rest of history, at least until the elders needed to pop out and recruit some new family members from the universe outside. | ||
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+ | 'So. Think of this story as the answer to a stupid question. The story of Faction Paradox, the story of the Eleven-Day Empire, but most of all the story of Cousin Justine. Just one of a thousand little Cousins who'd been drafted into the family estate. | ||
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+ | ' | ||
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+ | ====The True History of Faction Paradox ==== | ||
+ | Published by Magic Bullet Production: http:// | ||
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+ | Audio CD Productions from Magic Bullet Production | ||
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