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Faction Paradox

May 08, 2024

Faction Paradox[1] is a series of novels, audio stories, short story anthologies, and comics set in and around a "War in Heaven", a history-spanning conflict between godlike "Great Houses" and their mysterious enemy. The series is named after a group originally created by author Lawrence Miles for BBC Books' Doctor Who novels.

Overviews edit

Originally a subplot in the Eighth Doctor Adventures, the War involves several characters and concepts evolved from the original Doctor Who set-up. In several cases, the Faction Paradox series still features these groups, albeit with names changed for reasons both literary (most of the groups or items mentioned are described from different perspectives) and legal (the Faction and the Enemy are Miles's creations, but other elements are not – thus the Great Houses are the Faction Paradox range's equivalent to Doctor Who's Time Lords).[2] Faction Paradox themselves are not the enemy in this War, and play a neutral part, willing to act against both sides in their own interests. Miles has described them as "a ritualistic time-travelling guerrilla organisation".

The semi-mythical founder of Faction Paradox is Grandfather Paradox, named after the grandfather paradox of time travel theory. Originally a member of the Great Houses himself, the Grandfather created a new group after he became frustrated with the ways of the Great Houses. Faction Paradox therefore takes a good deal of pleasure in irritating the Great Houses, and many of their traditions and rituals are aligned in direct opposition to the way the Great Houses do things. Their time machines are bigger on the inside, in much the same way as TARDISes are, and the familial titles its members use (e.g. "Father", "Cousin") reference family units which the Great Houses lost when they became sterile.

Faction Paradox also take a perverse pride in causing time paradoxes (something that is against the laws of the Great Houses) and achieving impossible or absurd effects for their own sake. For instance, they typically wear ritual skull masks which are in fact the skulls of vampirised members of the Great Houses who, in the Great Houses' version of history, never existed. Their stronghold on Earth exists in a version of London, within what they call "The Eleven-Day Empire", bought from the British government in 1752. In that year, the British Empire first adopted the Gregorian calendar, and in so doing had to correct their dating scheme by 11 days (2 September 1752 being followed by 14 September 1752). Faction Paradox claimed the missing 11 days as their base (building on the illogicity that only the numbering scheme changed and no days were actually "missing").

Stories edit

Doctor Who (BBC Books) edit

After a brief mention of Grandfather Paradox in the Virgin New Adventures novel Christmas on a Rational Planet, Faction Paradox and the War in Heaven made their debut in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor novels.

The most relevant books to the Faction Paradox universe are:

Several other Doctor Who novels featured or referenced Faction Paradox, most notably The Ancestor Cell (written by Stephen Cole and Peter Anghelides in 2000), The Quantum Archangel (written by Craig Hinton in 2001), and The Gallifrey Chronicles (written by Lance Parkin in 2005), but were contradicted or otherwise ignored in the Faction Paradox series.

Faction Paradox (BBV) edit

A series of full-cast audio dramas dubbed The Faction Paradox Protocols was produced by BBV between 2001 and 2004. All were written by Lawrence Miles. These stories centred on two Cousins of the Faction, Justine and Eliza. (Justine had previously featured in the BBC novel Alien Bodies, and Eliza appeared in Dead Romance as "Christine Summerfield".) The first two stories were set in the Eleven-Day Empire; the second two in 18th century London; and the last two were split between Justine's pre-Faction past and the Great Houses' prison facility. Although there were six releases and an ongoing story, each pair (usually released close together) formed a two-part story. In order they were:

  • The Eleven-Day Empire (2001)
  • The Shadow Play (2001)
  • Sabbath Dei (2003)
  • In the Year of the Cat (2003)
  • Movers (2003)
  • A Labyrinth of Histories (2004)

June 2021 saw the return to BBV of the series as audio downloads[1] Also, a 5-minute video crossover with BBV's P.R.O.B.E. series was released.[3] Lawrence Miles said of these productions, 'I no longer have full control over the copyright, but I strongly recommend that you don't buy any Faction Paradox material from BBV.'[4]

  • Daylight Savings (video crossover with P.R.O.B.E., James Hornby, 2021)
  • Eternal Escape (James Hornby, 2021)
  • Dionus's War
    • Call Me Ishmael (J.T. Mulholland, 2021)
    • The Healer's Sin (J.T. Mulholland, 2021)
    • Me & My Ghost (Bill Baggs, 2021)
  • Sabbath and the King (Aristide Twain, 2021)
  • The Confession of Brother Signet (Michael Gilroy-Sinclair, 2021)
  • Hellscape
    • Lucifer (Trevor Spencer, 2022)
    • Lucifer's Sleep (Trevor Spencer, 2022)
    • Babylon's Own Personal Hell (Trevor Spencer, 2022)
    • Brother's Keeper (Trevor Spencer, 2022)
    • Unwanted Guest (Trevor Spencer, 2022)
    • Lilith Fades (Trevor Spencer, 2022)

On August 28 2023, BBV Productions continued, as promised, the Hellscape series as a Faction Paradox spin off with the first half of the audio series's second season (titled The Lilium Saga) and a free episode (episode 5) of the video series Hellscape: MorningStar.[5][6]

Faction Paradox (Mad Norwegian Press) edit

In 2002 Mad Norwegian Press published a multi-author faux-encyclopedia to the first 50 years of the War in Heaven, edited by Faction Paradox creator Lawrence Miles, as a companion to the BBV audios. After the success of The Book of the War, Mad Norwegian began publishing a Faction Paradox series of novels set in the same universe. These novels roam the ongoing War in Heaven; despite the series' name, the Faction and its members are not the focus, sometimes featuring only as minor characters, and sometimes not appearing at all. The books also featured characters from the Doctor Who novels, including Chris Cwej and Compassion.

Mad Norwegian also republished the Virgin New Adventures novel Dead Romance as part of their Faction Paradox line in 2003.

Faction Paradox (Image Comics) edit

 
Cover of the first comics issue

In 2003, the first two issues of a Faction Paradox comic were produced by Mad Norwegian and published by Image Comics. The series was subsequently cancelled. The comic was written by Lawrence Miles with art from Jim Calafiore and inks by Peter Palmiotti.[7] It was set after the events of the War in Heaven, though due to its short run it did not give much detail on the post-War universe.[8] It tied into events described in The Faction Paradox Protocols, The Book of the War, and The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.

Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet) edit

In 2004, Magic Bullet Productions, known for their Kaldor City audio dramas, obtained the license to produce further Faction Paradox audios, dubbed The True History of Faction Paradox. The narrative of this series continued from The Faction Paradox Protocols, although the first CD was also written to be accessible to newcomers. Like the BBV audios, these stories focused on Cousin Justine and Cousin Eliza, but the characters were recast.

The dramas in the series, released between 2005 and 2009, have featured guest stars including Julian Glover, Peter Miles, Philip Madoc and Gabriel Woolf. Woolf plays the ancient Egyptian god Sutekh, whom he had previously played in the 1975 Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars. The six titles are:

  • Coming To Dust[9]
  • The Ship of a Billion Years[10]
  • Body Politic[11]
  • Words from Nine Divinities[12]
  • Ozymandias[13]
  • The Judgment of Sutekh[14]

Faction Paradox (Random Static) edit

In 2007, New Zealand-based publisher Random Static announced they would be publishing further Faction Paradox novels. What turned out to be the sole title of the new range was published in January 2008. The cover art, by Emma Weakley, won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Artwork in 2009.[15]

Faction Paradox (Obverse Books) edit

In June 2010, Obverse Books acquired a license to produce collections of Faction Paradox short stories and longer fiction.

Faction Hollywood edit

In 2019, Obverse Books published a first story featuring Faction Hollywood, a group introduced by Jonathan Dennis in The Book of the War.

  • Hyponormalisation: A Faction Hollywood Production (Jonathan Dennis, as part of An Obverse Sextet, 2019)

Worlds of the Spiral Politic edit

  • The Boulevard: Volume 1 (ed Stuart Douglas, 2022)
  • Inward Collapse (Lawrence Burton, 2023)

The City of the Saved edit

In 2012, Obverse Books launched a series of anthologies set in the City of the Saved, a setting first introduced and explored in the Faction Paradox series.

  • Tales of the City (ed Philip Purser-Hallard, 2012)[17]
  • More Tales of the City (ed Philip Purser-Hallard, 2013)
  • Tales of the Great Detectives (ed Philip Purser-Hallard, 2014)
  • Furthest Tales of the City (ed Philip Purser-Hallard, 2015)
  • Tales of the Civil War (ed Philip Purser-Hallard, 2017)
  • Stranger Tales of the City (ed Elizabeth Evershed, 2018)
  • Vanishing Tales of the City (novella, by Kara Dennison, as part of An Obverse Sextet, 2019)

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Faction Paradox".
  2. ^ "The Faction and the Doctor". Curufea. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  3. ^ "Faction Paradox/PROBE: Daylight Savings (VIDEO DOWNLOAD)".
  4. ^ Miles, Lawrence [@The_Beasthouse] (6 June 2021). (Tweet). Archived from the original on 4 September 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2024 – via Twitter.
  5. ^ BBV Productions [@bbv_productions] (28 August 2023). "The hunt for Lilith continues, and their search unwillingly brings them to a dangerous new planet... But one that may hold the answers. Join Lucifer and Babylon in Acts I-III of The Lilium Saga!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 30 August 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2024 – via Twitter.
  6. ^ BBV Productions [@bbv_productions] (28 August 2023). "EP. 5 of Hellscape: Morningstar!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 30 August 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2024 – via Twitter.
  7. ^ Faction Paradox
  8. ^ Comic Db Entry for Faction Paradox
  9. ^ The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 1: Coming to Dust
  10. ^ The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 2: The Ship of a Billion Years
  11. ^ The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 3: Body Politic
  12. ^ The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 4: Words from Nine Divinities
  13. ^ The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 5: Ozymandias
  14. ^ The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 6: The Judgement of Sutekh
  15. ^ Sir Julius Vogel Winners 2008 5 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ a b "Press Release: Faction Paradox 2012". 26 December 2011.
  17. ^ "Obverse Shop: Faction Paradox".

External links edit

  • Official Website
  • Random Static
  • Obverse Books
  • Faction Paradox on Tardis Wiki, the Doctor Who Wiki

May 08, 2024
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Faction Paradox 1 is a series of novels audio stories short story anthologies and comics set in and around a War in Heaven a history spanning conflict between godlike Great Houses and their mysterious enemy The series is named after a group originally created by author Lawrence Miles for BBC Books Doctor Who novels Contents 1 Overviews 2 Stories 2 1 Doctor Who BBC Books 2 2 Faction Paradox BBV 2 3 Faction Paradox Mad Norwegian Press 2 4 Faction Paradox Image Comics 2 5 Faction Paradox Magic Bullet 2 6 Faction Paradox Random Static 2 7 Faction Paradox Obverse Books 2 7 1 Faction Hollywood 2 8 Worlds of the Spiral Politic 2 8 1 The City of the Saved 3 References 4 External linksOverviews editOriginally a subplot in the Eighth Doctor Adventures the War involves several characters and concepts evolved from the original Doctor Who set up In several cases the Faction Paradox series still features these groups albeit with names changed for reasons both literary most of the groups or items mentioned are described from different perspectives and legal the Faction and the Enemy are Miles s creations but other elements are not thus the Great Houses are the Faction Paradox range s equivalent to Doctor Who s Time Lords 2 Faction Paradox themselves are not the enemy in this War and play a neutral part willing to act against both sides in their own interests Miles has described them as a ritualistic time travelling guerrilla organisation The semi mythical founder of Faction Paradox is Grandfather Paradox named after the grandfather paradox of time travel theory Originally a member of the Great Houses himself the Grandfather created a new group after he became frustrated with the ways of the Great Houses Faction Paradox therefore takes a good deal of pleasure in irritating the Great Houses and many of their traditions and rituals are aligned in direct opposition to the way the Great Houses do things Their time machines are bigger on the inside in much the same way as TARDISes are and the familial titles its members use e g Father Cousin reference family units which the Great Houses lost when they became sterile Faction Paradox also take a perverse pride in causing time paradoxes something that is against the laws of the Great Houses and achieving impossible or absurd effects for their own sake For instance they typically wear ritual skull masks which are in fact the skulls of vampirised members of the Great Houses who in the Great Houses version of history never existed Their stronghold on Earth exists in a version of London within what they call The Eleven Day Empire bought from the British government in 1752 In that year the British Empire first adopted the Gregorian calendar and in so doing had to correct their dating scheme by 11 days 2 September 1752 being followed by 14 September 1752 Faction Paradox claimed the missing 11 days as their base building on the illogicity that only the numbering scheme changed and no days were actually missing Stories editDoctor Who BBC Books edit After a brief mention of Grandfather Paradox in the Virgin New Adventures novel Christmas on a Rational Planet Faction Paradox and the War in Heaven made their debut in BBC Books Eighth Doctor novels The most relevant books to the Faction Paradox universe are Alien Bodies Lawrence Miles 1997 Unnatural History Kate Orman and Jon Blum 1999 Interference Book One Shock Tactic Lawrence Miles 1999 Interference Book Two The Hour of the Geek Lawrence Miles 1999 The Blue Angel Paul Magrs 1999 The Taking of Planet 5 Simon Bucher Jones and Mark Clapham 1999 The Shadows of Avalon Paul Cornell 2000 The Adventuress of Henrietta Street Lawrence Miles 2001 Several other Doctor Who novels featured or referenced Faction Paradox most notably The Ancestor Cell written by Stephen Cole and Peter Anghelides in 2000 The Quantum Archangel written by Craig Hinton in 2001 and The Gallifrey Chronicles written by Lance Parkin in 2005 but were contradicted or otherwise ignored in the Faction Paradox series Faction Paradox BBV edit A series of full cast audio dramas dubbed The Faction Paradox Protocols was produced by BBV between 2001 and 2004 All were written by Lawrence Miles These stories centred on two Cousins of the Faction Justine and Eliza Justine had previously featured in the BBC novel Alien Bodies and Eliza appeared in Dead Romance as Christine Summerfield The first two stories were set in the Eleven Day Empire the second two in 18th century London and the last two were split between Justine s pre Faction past and the Great Houses prison facility Although there were six releases and an ongoing story each pair usually released close together formed a two part story In order they were The Eleven Day Empire 2001 The Shadow Play 2001 Sabbath Dei 2003 In the Year of the Cat 2003 Movers 2003 A Labyrinth of Histories 2004 June 2021 saw the return to BBV of the series as audio downloads 1 Also a 5 minute video crossover with BBV s P R O B E series was released 3 Lawrence Miles said of these productions I no longer have full control over the copyright but I strongly recommend that you don t buy any Faction Paradox material from BBV 4 Daylight Savings video crossover with P R O B E James Hornby 2021 Eternal Escape James Hornby 2021 Dionus s War Call Me Ishmael J T Mulholland 2021 The Healer s Sin J T Mulholland 2021 Me amp My Ghost Bill Baggs 2021 Sabbath and the King Aristide Twain 2021 The Confession of Brother Signet Michael Gilroy Sinclair 2021 Hellscape Lucifer Trevor Spencer 2022 Lucifer s Sleep Trevor Spencer 2022 Babylon s Own Personal Hell Trevor Spencer 2022 Brother s Keeper Trevor Spencer 2022 Unwanted Guest Trevor Spencer 2022 Lilith Fades Trevor Spencer 2022 On August 28 2023 BBV Productions continued as promised the Hellscape series as a Faction Paradox spin off with the first half of the audio series s second season titled The Lilium Saga and a free episode episode 5 of the video series Hellscape MorningStar 5 6 Faction Paradox Mad Norwegian Press edit In 2002 Mad Norwegian Press published a multi author faux encyclopedia to the first 50 years of the War in Heaven edited by Faction Paradox creator Lawrence Miles as a companion to the BBV audios After the success of The Book of the War Mad Norwegian began publishing a Faction Paradox series of novels set in the same universe These novels roam the ongoing War in Heaven despite the series name the Faction and its members are not the focus sometimes featuring only as minor characters and sometimes not appearing at all The books also featured characters from the Doctor Who novels including Chris Cwej and Compassion The Book of the War Lawrence Miles et al 2002 This Town Will Never Let Us Go Lawrence Miles 2003 Of the City of the Saved Philip Purser Hallard 2004 Warlords of Utopia Lance Parkin 2004 Warring States Mags L Halliday 2005 Erasing Sherlock Kelly Hale 2006 Mad Norwegian also republished the Virgin New Adventures novel Dead Romance as part of their Faction Paradox line in 2003 Faction Paradox Image Comics edit nbsp Cover of the first comics issue In 2003 the first two issues of a Faction Paradox comic were produced by Mad Norwegian and published by Image Comics The series was subsequently cancelled The comic was written by Lawrence Miles with art from Jim Calafiore and inks by Peter Palmiotti 7 It was set after the events of the War in Heaven though due to its short run it did not give much detail on the post War universe 8 It tied into events described in The Faction Paradox Protocols The Book of the War and The Adventuress of Henrietta Street Faction Paradox Magic Bullet edit In 2004 Magic Bullet Productions known for their Kaldor City audio dramas obtained the license to produce further Faction Paradox audios dubbed The True History of Faction Paradox The narrative of this series continued from The Faction Paradox Protocols although the first CD was also written to be accessible to newcomers Like the BBV audios these stories focused on Cousin Justine and Cousin Eliza but the characters were recast The dramas in the series released between 2005 and 2009 have featured guest stars including Julian Glover Peter Miles Philip Madoc and Gabriel Woolf Woolf plays the ancient Egyptian god Sutekh whom he had previously played in the 1975 Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars The six titles are Coming To Dust 9 The Ship of a Billion Years 10 Body Politic 11 Words from Nine Divinities 12 Ozymandias 13 The Judgment of Sutekh 14 Faction Paradox Random Static edit In 2007 New Zealand based publisher Random Static announced they would be publishing further Faction Paradox novels What turned out to be the sole title of the new range was published in January 2008 The cover art by Emma Weakley won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Artwork in 2009 15 Newtons Sleep Daniel O Mahony 2008 Faction Paradox Obverse Books edit In June 2010 Obverse Books acquired a license to produce collections of Faction Paradox short stories and longer fiction A Romance in Twelve Parts ed Stuart Douglas 2011 Burning with Optimism s Flames ed Julian Eales 2012 16 Against Nature Lawrence Burton 2013 16 The Brakespeare Voyage Simon Bucher Jones and Jonathan Dennis 2013 Liberating Earth ed Kate Orman 2015 Head of State Andrew Hickey 2015 Weapons Grade Snake Oil Blair Bidmead 2017 Spinning Jenny Dale Smith 2017 The Book of the Enemy ed Simon Bucher Jones 2018 The Book of the Peace ed Philip Marsh 2018 Faction Hollywood edit In 2019 Obverse Books published a first story featuring Faction Hollywood a group introduced by Jonathan Dennis in The Book of the War Hyponormalisation A Faction Hollywood Production Jonathan Dennis as part of An Obverse Sextet 2019 Worlds of the Spiral Politic edit The Boulevard Volume 1 ed Stuart Douglas 2022 Inward Collapse Lawrence Burton 2023 The City of the Saved edit In 2012 Obverse Books launched a series of anthologies set in the City of the Saved a setting first introduced and explored in the Faction Paradox series Tales of the City ed Philip Purser Hallard 2012 17 More Tales of the City ed Philip Purser Hallard 2013 Tales of the Great Detectives ed Philip Purser Hallard 2014 Furthest Tales of the City ed Philip Purser Hallard 2015 Tales of the Civil War ed Philip Purser Hallard 2017 Stranger Tales of the City ed Elizabeth Evershed 2018 Vanishing Tales of the City novella by Kara Dennison as part of An Obverse Sextet 2019 References edit a b Faction Paradox The Faction and the Doctor Curufea 10 December 2009 Retrieved 3 November 2011 Faction Paradox PROBE Daylight Savings VIDEO DOWNLOAD Miles Lawrence The Beasthouse 6 June 2021 I no longer have full control over the copyright but I strongly recommend that you don t buy any Faction Paradox material from BBV Tweet Archived from the original on 4 September 2022 Retrieved 2 February 2024 via Twitter BBV Productions bbv productions 28 August 2023 The hunt for Lilith continues and their search unwillingly brings them to a dangerous new planet But one that may hold the answers Join Lucifer and Babylon in Acts I III of The Lilium Saga Tweet Archived from the original on 30 August 2023 Retrieved 2 February 2024 via Twitter BBV Productions bbv productions 28 August 2023 EP 5 of Hellscape Morningstar Tweet Archived from the original on 30 August 2023 Retrieved 2 February 2024 via Twitter Faction Paradox Comic Db Entry for Faction Paradox The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 1 Coming to Dust The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 2 The Ship of a Billion Years The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 3 Body Politic The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 4 Words from Nine Divinities The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 5 Ozymandias The True History of Faction Paradox Vol 6 The Judgement of Sutekh Sir Julius Vogel Winners 2008 Archived 5 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine a b Press Release Faction Paradox 2012 26 December 2011 Obverse Shop Faction Paradox External links editOfficial Website Faction Paradox at Mad Norwegian Press Random Static Obverse Books Faction Paradox on Tardis Wiki the Doctor Who Wiki Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Faction Paradox amp oldid 1219146521, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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