Faction Paradox

Faction Paradox is the fictional time travelling voodoo cult/rebel group/organized crime syndicate created by Lawrence Miles. The family/organization, which originated in the BBC Doctor Who novels 'Alien Bodies' and 'Unnatural History', have gone on to spin-off into their own continuing tales.

The semi-mythical founder of Faction Paradox is Grandfather Paradox, named after the grandfather paradox of time travel theory.

The Faction Paradox universe is heavily centered around the 'War in Heaven', a history spanning conflict between 'The Great Houses' and 'The Enemy'. It features characters and concepts introduced in Doctor Who, in most cases with names changed or obscured for literary reasons or licensing issues.

Faction Paradox take a perverse pride in causing time paradoxes and achieving impossible or ridiculous effects for their own sake. For instance, their stronghold on Earth exists in London of 1752, within what they call "The Eleven-Day Empire." In that year, the British Empire first adopted the Gregorian calendar, and in so doing had to correct their dating scheme by eleven days (September 2, 1752 being followed by September 14, 1752). Faction Paradox claimed the missing eleven days as their base (even though, logically, only the numbering scheme changed and no days were actually "missing").

Books

An ongoing series of novels featuring Faction Paradox or related themes is published by Mad Norwegian Press. A series of comic books was also written by Lawrence Miles, produced by Image Comics, but was placed on hiatus indefinitely after publication of its second issue.

So far the Faction Paradox novels include:

• The Book of the War - An encylopedia/handbook/digest of the first 50 years of the War. Jointly written by many authors and edited by Lawrence Miles
• This Town Will Never Let us Go - Lawrence Miles
• Of the City of the Saved... - Philip Purser-Hallard
• Warlords of Utopia - Lance Parkin
• Warring States - Mags L Halliday

Mad Norwegian has announced that they intend to republish 'Dead Romance' by Lawrence Miles which was originally published by Virgin Publishing as part of their New Adventures line.

Audios

A series of full-cast audio dramas dubbed 'The Faction Paradox Protocols' has been produced by BBV, written by Lawrence Miles:

• The Eleven Day Empire
• The Shadow Play
• Sabbath Dei
• In the Year of the Cat
• Movers
• A Labyrinth of Histories

In May, 2004 it was announced that Magic Bullet Productions, known for their 'Kaldor City' audio dramas, had obtained the license to produce further Faction Paradox audios.