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Faction Paradox series: History
Lawrence Miles' second Eighth Doctor novel, Interference, was released on 2 August 1999. Although fans on the Internet liked and supported Interference, after reading Ness Bishop's critical review of the novel in DWM 281, Miles felt he had "lost [his] mandate" and on 17 August posted his resignation from writing Doctor Who. He felt that "it would've been terrible to keep inflicting [Faction Paradox] on people who just wanted a Doctor story", so he began working on a Faction Paradox series.

By 2000, BBV Productions had agreed to develop a series of Faction Paradox audios written by Lawrence Miles. The first of these Faction Paradox Protocols audios, The Eleven Day Empire, was released in October 2001. In September of 2003, BBV announced that it was cancelling all of its audio products except for the Faction Paradox Protocols; however, the series concluded in 2004 with A Labyrinth of Histories.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050301095711/http://planeteleven.co.uk:80/features/lmia/ninthart.php

there was a point, a few weeks into the process of putting the book together, when I realised that the focus really had changed and that the continuity really was taking on its own identity. When Alien Bodies came out the point was to set up a possible new version of the future for the Doctor Who universe, so, for example, there were Time Lords but War conditions had changed them to the point where they weren't immediately recognisable as the Robert Holmes version of the Time Lords. Except that the more I went down this path, and the more I went into the mechanics of the War, the less like Time Lords they got until by the time I came to write The Faction Paradox Protocols they'd turned into Houses - which is a very Marc Platt idea, it's got to be said, rather than one that's directly connected to the TV programme - and they'd become something completely different. So there was a definite point in The Book of the War when I suddenly realised that even if I had BBC permission to use phrases like "Time Lords" and "TARDISes" then� I wouldn't. Because they're not. Because it's turned into a different kind of universe. Like I keep saying, I've always seen the Time Lords as being elementals rather than aliens anyway, so I suppose the point is that The Book of the War uses the mythological elements from Doctor Who but nothing else. http://web.archive.org/web/20080509161052/http://www.gallifreyone.com/interview.php?id=miles

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"EDA", "PDA", and "NSA" are fan-created titles for stories which were all released under the exact same branding. (Eg Mad Dogs and Englishmen being advertised as the 100th.) The separation of "series" into titles obscures connections like the Eighth Doctor component of Fear Itself or the "Past Doctor" component of Interference.) Distinction between Eighth Doctor and previous Doctor novels can be better achieved by prose fiction overviews for Eighth Doctor novels etc analogous to Eighth Doctor comic stories.