The Book of the War (novel)

 was the first novel in the Faction Paradox series of novels.

Publisher's summary
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 criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults, happy to be caught in the crossfire and ready to take whatever's needed from the wreckage... assuming the other powers leave behind a universe that's habitable.

The War

A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect."

Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and 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 protocol and paranoia in 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...

The Core Entries

 * The Spiral Politic
 * The Great Houses
 * The House Military
 * The Celestis
 * Faction Paradox
 * Inset: The Faction Paradox "Family"
 * The Remote
 * Lesser Species
 * Yssgaroth

History of Faction Paradox

 * The Anchoring of the Thread
 * Armour (Faction Paradox)
 * Audience of the Ruling Houses
 * The Caldera
 * The Eleven-Day Empire
 * Fashion Paradox, London
 * The Gregorian Compact
 * History
 * The Imperator Presidency
 * Intervention
 * Protocols of Linearity
 * Loa
 * London (Eighteenth Century)
 * Godfather Morlock
 * House Paradox
 * Recruitment (Faction Paradox)
 * Ritual (Faction Paradox)
 * The Act of Severance
 * Sombras que Corta
 * The Stacks
 * Father Stendec
 * Tower Hill
 * The Unkindnesses
 * New Palace of Westminster

The History of Earth

 * The Analytical Engine
 * The Book of Enoch
 * Captain Sir Burton
 * George Gordon, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale
 * Ada Byron
 * Canon per Tonos
 * The Clockwork Ouroboros
 * The Eleven-Day Empire: The 1834 Attack
 * Ghost Clusters
 * The Grand Families
 * Grindlay's Warehouse
 * Grotesques
 * Karachi
 * Liber Sanguisugarum
 * Mal'akh
 * The Maltese Incident
 * The Mountains of the Moon
 * The Musical Offering
 * Napoleonic Era
 * The "Princess of Parallelograms" Letters
 * The Shelley Cabal
 * The Society of St. George
 * John Hanning Speke
 * The Star Chamber
 * The Walking Dead
 * House Xianthellipse
 * Robert Scarratt

The A-Z of the War

 * House Strategist Entarodora
 * The "Monsters" Coda
 * Xenoprediction
 * "You" Diversions
 * The "Probability" Doctrine
 * Confusion
 * Utterlost
 * Zero Time
 * Gravity Spiders
 * Time-thickening
 * Apportation
 * Women (Dressing Up As)
 * Nechronomancers
 * HEM (Highest Entropy Matter)
 * Ordifica
 * Intercreationals
 * Leviathans
 * Quintessence
 * Redemption Cult
 * Forced Regen Missions
 * D-Mat
 * Burlesque Devices
 * "Killerbots" (Autonomic)
 * Vaccinations (Temporal)

Houses and Orders

 * Jungle Children
 * Hauserkinder
 * "Justine's Story"
 * House Arpexia
 * Babels
 * Casts
 * House Catherion
 * House Ixion
 * Lethean Campaign
 * Order of the Weal
 * Chatelaine Thessalia
 * War Predictions: Chatelaine Thessalia
 * Zo la Domini

The History of the Homeworld

 * Closed Session (of the Ruling Houses)
 * Dronid
 * House Dvora
 * The enemy
 * The Faraway Declaration
 * The First Message from the Enemy
 * The Head of the Presidency
 * The Homeworld
 * House Lineacrux
 * The Nine Homeworlds
 * Noosphere
 * The Presidency
 * Protocols of the Great Houses
 * Regen-Inf
 * The Ruling Houses
 * Sex
 * Space (Five Famous Battles)
 * Timeships
 * Laura Tobin
 * Academician Umbaste
 * The War King
 * Inset: The War King's Inaugural Address
 * Carmen Yeh
 * Appendix III: Carmen Yeh's "Fantastical Travels in an Infinite Universe"
 * Compassion

The History of Posthumanity

 * Earth: History
 * Posthumanity
 * Praxis
 * Siloportem
 * Time-Travel: Posthuman
 * War Predictions: The Rivera Manuscript
 * Appendix IV: Notes on the Rivera Manuscript

The Academician's Story

 * Academicians for Game Logic
 * Academician Devonire
 * Grandfather Paradox (Representations)
 * The Grandfather's Arm
 * Kaiwar
 * Paradox Anxiety
 * The Thousand-Year Battles
 * Waves of the House Military
 * Appendix I: The Beginning of the War (A Chronology)

The Non-History of the Celestis

 * Anarchitects
 * Chaotic Limiter
 * Conceptual Entities
 * Fluxes
 * Gargoyles
 * Meme
 * Mictlan
 * Order of the Dragon
 * The Ottoman Purges
 * Sacrifice
 * Shifts

The Shift's Story

 * Beshielach
 * Dating War Era Events (Difficulties)
 * The Greater Autrobulan Franchise
 * The Lords Celestial
 * Memeovore
 * Planetesimals
 * Personality Reboots
 * Worldofme

The City of the Saved

 * City of the Saved
 * The Timebeast Assault
 * Former Citizen Verrifant
 * House Mirraflex
 * Lady Armourer Mantissa
 * Het Linc
 * Secret Architects (of the City of the Saved)
 * Uptime Gate
 * Amanda Legend Lefcourt
 * Gargil Krymtorpor
 * Ghetto of the Damned
 * Lord Foaming Sky
 * Order of the Iron Soul
 * Cousin Pinocchio
 * The Rump Parliament
 * Father Timon
 * House Halfling
 * The Piltdown Mob
 * Sons of Tepes

The Impaler's Story

 * Tirgoviste
 * Ulterior Worlds
 * Vlad III of Wallachia
 * Wallachia
 * Djinn
 * The Edimmu
 * Gragov
 * Lord Halved Birth
 * Investigators
 * Investigator Thirty-One
 * Mark of Indenture
 * The Poenari Relic
 * Grigori Efimovitch Rasputin

The Thirteen-Day Republic

 * Cousin-Thrice-Removed Anastasia
 * The Cult of Celebrity Death
 * Father-Twice-Removed Dyavol
 * The House of Lords
 * The Malachite Room
 * Cousin-Once-Removed Nadim
 * Cousin Octavia
 * The Red Burial
 * Removal of Members
 * The Thirteen-Day Republic
 * Battle of Valentine's Day
 * The Winter Palace
 * Witch-blood

Labyrinths

 * Biodata
 * The Diaspora
 * Eremites
 * Faction Precursors
 * Mrs. Foyle
 * The House of the Rising Sun
 * Labyrinths
 * The Remonstration Bureau
 * Voodoo Charter
 * The Venue Accords
 * Weaponstores (Remote)

The Ghost Dance

 * A'daltem Ano'nde
 * Cousin Belial
 * Catch-the-Bear's War Bonnet
 * Ghost Shirts
 * North American Warrior Tribes
 * Nunaha'wu
 * Open Doors
 * Pai'ngya
 * Peyote Dream Runners
 * Sand and Snow Ammunition
 * Tenskwatawa
 * Appendix II: From the North American Journals of Cousin Belial

The History of the Remote

 * Anchormen
 * The Broken Remote
 * Fallahal
 * The Jallama Reed Transmissions
 * The New Young Gods
 * Remembrance Tanks
 * Shadow-Masks
 * Simia-KK98
 * The Viewers and Listeners Protocols
 * Wovoka

Faction Hollywood

 * Michael Brookhaven
 * Brookhaven's Follies
 * Christopher Rodonanté Cwej
 * Cwejen
 * Faction Hollywood
 * The Fat
 * The Gauntlet
 * GCI Processor
 * Hollow Spectaculars
 * Inset: Brookhaven's Ghost Kingdom: The Six Central Characters
 * The Hollywood Bowl Shooting
 * The House of the Seven Gables
 * The Mount Usu Duel
 * "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
 * The North Los Angeles Cabal
 * Order of the White Peacock
 * Production Hell
 * "Through the Eye of Eternity"
 * Chad Vandemeer

The End

 * "Briefings"
 * Humanity
 * Nanotechnology
 * Parablox
 * Ronald Bela Nevitz
 * Time-Travel: Biodata Principle
 * The Younger World Story

Coda

 * House Lolita
 * House Tracolix

Continuity

 * The Shift was a liquid life-form before it was transformed into a shift; it then received the Mark of Indenture and was enslaved to the Celestis. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
 * An interventionist member of the Great Houses was believed to have died as the fighting began on Dronid. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
 * Homeworld weapons like babels and casts were used on the planet Lethe. (PROSE: The Parliament of Rats)
 * Chris Cwej was recruited as an agent of the Great Houses. (PROSE: Dead Romance)
 * A Homeworld colony was located on Simia KK98. (PROSE: Alien Bodies, Dead Romance)
 * The Faction Paradox created the Remote on Ordifica. They reproduce through Remembrance Tanks. (PROSE: Interference)
 * Grandfather Paradox was imprisoned on the Great Houses' prison. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet, Interference)
 * House Mirraflex was an illustrious Great House. (AUDIO: The Conscript)
 * Investigator One was the Celestis' head field agent. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)
 * Compassion was the first and only 102-form timeship. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)
 * The Homeworld is ruled by Great Houses. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
 * House Lolita is an up-and-coming force in the War. (PROSE: Toy Story)
 * The Mal'akh are connected to humanity's noosphere. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
 * Multiple Homeworlds were constructed during the War. (PROSE: Alien Bodies, The Taking of Planet 5, The Shadows of Avalon)
 * The leader of the Homeworld during the War used the title War King. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)
 * The Star Chamber ran secret operations in Great Britain and around the world. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
 * The Yssgaroth fought a war with the Great Houses at the beginning of history. (PROSE: The Pit, TV: State of Decay)