A primer to the Faction Paradox universe, The Book of the War is not so much an anthology as a collaborative novel in the form of an encyclopedia. Woven through its several hundred entries are the tales of the participants, settings and tactics involved in the epic War between the time-travelling Great Houses and their nameless enemy. Among those cultures swept along in the temporal fallout are the time-active voodoo terrorists known as Faction Paradox, created by editor Lawrence Miles in an extensive fictional universe incorporating comics, audio dramas and a series of novels.

     Among the multiple interwoven narratives which may be unravelled by the careful reader is that of the “City of the Saved”, a realm beyond the end of time where the human bloodline has been resurrected in its entirety by persons (and for purposes) unknown. In the City may be found the Neanderthal activists known as the Piltdown Mob, the devious Celestis Ambassador Lord Foaming Sky and Cousin Pinocchio, Faction Paradox's only known cyborg recruit. Here, too, is the Rump Parliament, the Faction's own fifth column among the last known civilisation of humanity.

     The City of the Saved is the creation of Philip Purser-Hallard, and is explored at (significantly) greater length in Of the City of the Saved..., the second of the original Faction Paradox novels from Mad Norwegian Press.

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