Faction Paradox is a fictional time travelling voodoo cult/rebel group/organized crime syndicate created by Lawrence Miles. The family/organization, originally featured as recurring villians in the BBC Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, have spun-off into their own continuing tales. Although the Faction Paradox stories outside of the BBC Books share situations and characters in common with the Doctor Who universe, the two continuities are quite separate. Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... A large sequined Voodoo dwapo or flag by the artist George Valris The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based spiritist-animist religious tradition. ... In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (often a relatively small and new religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream. ... Olivia Amador ... Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ... Lawrence Miles (born 1972 in Middlesex) is a science-fiction author best known for his work on original Doctor Who novels (both for the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series), and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 p. ... The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. ...

Overview

The Faction Paradox universe is heavily centered around the "War in Heaven", a history-spanning conflict between the "Great Houses" and the "Enemy". Originally a subplot in the Eighth Doctor Adventures, the War features characters and concepts evolved from the original Doctor Who set-up, in several cases with names changed or obscured for reasons literary (most of the groups or items mentioned are described in rather different terms with a different emphasis on certain aspects) or legal (the Faction and The Enemy are Miles's creations, but other elements are not — the Great Houses are the disguised version of the Time Lords). Faction Paradox themselves are not the Enemy, and play a relatively small part in the grand scheme of things, sitting on the sidelines of the War in Heaven. Lawrence Miles has described them as "a ritualistic time-travelling guerrilla organisation". Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 p. ... The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

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. It is also possible that Grandfather Paradox may be an alternate future form of the Doctor. In the Eighth Doctor Adventure novel The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin it is stated that Grandfather Paradox is everyone's possible future self, and his origins tied to Gallifreyan myth. The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel, supposedly first conceived by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his book Future times three (Le voyageur imprudent, 1943). ... Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who (and spin-offs including the Virgin New Adventures and Faction Paradox) and Emmerdale. ... // Headline text A Vardan spaceship approaches Gallifrey from space (from The Invasion of Time). ...

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, 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"). 1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The British Empire was the largest empire in history. ... The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. ...

Books

Doctor Who (BBC Books)

Faction Paradox debuted and appeared repeatedly in the Eighth Doctor Adventures, a series of Doctor Who novels published by BBC Books featuring the Eighth Doctor (as portrayed by Paul McGann). The most relevant books to the Faction Paradox Universe are: The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 p. ... BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... The Eighth Doctor is the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959) is a British actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role. ...

• Alien Bodies - Lawrence Miles (1997)
• Unnatural History - Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman (1999)
• Interference Books 1 & 2 - Lawrence Miles (1999)
• Taking of Planet Five - Simon Bucher Jones and Mark Clapham (1999)
• 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)

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Faction Paradox (Mad Norwegian Press)

In 2002 the Faction started appearing in a series of books of their own, as published by Mad Norwegian Press. These novels centre on the ongoing War in Heaven; the Faction and its members are sometimes only featured as minor characters. The books have also featured characters from the Doctor Who novels, including Chris Cwej and Compassion. Christopher Rodonanté Cwej, usually just known as Chris Cwej, is a fictional character from the Virgin New Adventures range of spin-offs based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Compassion (aka Laura Tobin) is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ...

• The Book of the War - An encyclopedia/handbook/digest of the first 50 years of the War. Jointly written by many authors and edited by Lawrence Miles (2002)

A series of novels followed Lawrence Miles (born 1972 in Middlesex) is a science-fiction author best known for his work on original Doctor Who novels (both for the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series), and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox. ...

• 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 (slated for publication in 2006)

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Other

• Christmas On A Rational Planet - Lawrence Miles

One of Virgin Publishing's Doctor Who spin-off novels. Contains the earliest (though only a passing) reference to the Faction, at least in the form of its founder Grandfather Paradox. Lawrence Miles (born 1972 in Middlesex) is a science-fiction author best known for his work on original Doctor Who novels (both for the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series), and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox. ... Virgin Books is the book publishing arm of Virgin Enterprises, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company. ...

• Dead Romance - Lawrence Miles

Originally published by Virgin Publishing in 1999 as part of their Virgin New Adventures line, Mad Norwegian Press republished this novel, which features several characters and concepts that have subsequently appeared in the Faction Paradox universe, in 2004. Lawrence Miles (born 1972 in Middlesex) is a science-fiction author best known for his work on original Doctor Who novels (both for the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series), and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox. ... Virgin Books is the book publishing arm of Virgin Enterprises, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company. ... The Virgin New Adventures (often referred to simply as NAs within fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ...

Audio

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 were centred around two Cousins of the Faction, Justine and Eliza. The first two stories were set in the Eleven-Day Empire, and subsequent releases were set elsewhere (including a thinly disguised version of Shada, the Time Lords' prison planet from the unfinished Doctor Who episode by Douglas Adams). Although there were six releases and an ongoing story, each pair (usually released close together) formed a two-part story. In order they were: BBV is a video and audio production company specialising in science fiction drama, known for its links with the British science fiction television series Doctor Who (founder Bill Baggs is a fan, and BBV productions often feature characters and/or actors from the series). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shada is an unaired serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, written by Douglas Adams. ... Douglas Noël Adams in an undated publicity photograph by Jill Furmanovsky. ...

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

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 BBV releases, 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 first drama in the series, released in July 2005, is: The Kaldor City audio plays (see Doctor Who spin-offs ) are violent tales of power, sex and intrigue set in the universe of Chris Bouchers Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death, the Blakes 7 episode Weapon and his Doctor Who novel Corpse Marker. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Coming To Dust (guest starring Julian Glover, and Gabriel Woolf as Sutekh)

A second CD, The Ship of a Billion Years, also starring Glover and Woolf, has been announced, but its release has not yet been scheduled. Julian Glover in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. ... Gabriel Woolf Gabriel Woolf (born 2 October 1932) is an English film and television actor. ... This is a list of fictional villains from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ...

Comics

In 2003 the first two issues of a Faction Paradox comic were produced by Mad Norwegian and published by Image Comics, but it was subsequently placed on hiatus. The comic was written by Lawrence Miles with art from Jim Calafiore, and set after the events of the War in Heaven. Mad Norwegian have stated that they intend to complete the story in some form at some point in the future. Image Comics is the third or fourth largest comic book publisher in the United States. ... Lawrence Miles (born 1972 in Middlesex) is a science-fiction author best known for his work on original Doctor Who novels (both for the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series), and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox. ...

External links

• Faction Paradox.co.uk - maintained by Thomas Pratchett
• Faction Paradox at Mad Norwegian Press - maintained by Lars Pearson
• Discussion forum - moderated by Mags L Halliday
• The History of the Time Lords: Future Gallifrey - The War in Heaven - chronicles The War, Faction Paradox and the Future of Gallifrey as maintained by William B. Swift