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...

Characters

 * The Shift
 * Cousin Belial
 * Michael Brookhaven
 * Richard Francis Burton
 * George Gordon, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale
 * Ada Byron
 * Catch-the-Bear
 * Christopher Rodonanté Cwej
 * Academician Devonire
 * Father-Twice-Removed Dyavol
 * House Strategist Entarodora
 * Lord Foaming Sky
 * Mrs. Foyle
 * Lord Halved Birth
 * Investigator Thirty-One
 * Gargil Krymtorpor
 * Grandfather Paradox
 * Amanda Legend Lefcourt
 * Lady Armourer Mantissa
 * Godfather Morlock
 * Cousin-Once-Removed Nadim
 * Ronald Bela Nevitz
 * Cousin Octavia
 * Pai'ngya
 * Cousin Pinocchio
 * Grigori Efimovitch Rasputin
 * Robert Scarrat
 * John Hanning Speke
 * Father Stendec
 * Tenskwatawa
 * Chatelaine Thessalia
 * Father Timon
 * Laura Tobin
 * Academician Umbaste
 * Chad Vandemeer
 * Former Citizen Verrifant
 * Vlad III of Wallachia
 * The War King
 * Wovoka
 * Carmen Yeh

Continuity
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