Mightier Than the Sword (short story)

Mightier Than the Sword

Main character(s):

Douglas Canning

Main setting:

Camp Gulliver, Norfolk, 2012

Key crew

Writer:

Jay Eales

Release details

Part of:

A Romance in Twelve Parts

Release date:

31 May 2011

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Mightier Than the Sword was the third story in the Faction Paradox anthology A Romance in Twelve Parts.

1 Summary
2 Characters
3 References
4 Notes
5 Continuity
6 External links

Summary[]

to be added

Characters[]

Douglas Canning
Mister Livingstone
Fraction
Jim Sheldrake
Hart
Duggan
Bloor
Simon Wilmott
Gordons
Griffin
Governor Staples

References[]

Doug wears a fake rolex.
Doug thinks of Johnny Rotten.
The Five O'clock shadow was published by Spectral Press in 1998.

Notes[]

While the table of contents of A Romance in Twelve Parts lists this story as "Mightier than the Sword", the title at the start of the story capitalises "Than" to make "Mightier Than the Sword".

Continuity[]

to be added

External links[]

Mightier Than the Sword at the Faction Paradox wiki

Faction Paradox series

BBV Productions

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

Dionus's War	Call Me Ishmael • The Healer's Sin • Me & My Ghost

Other	Mr Saldaamir • Eternal Escape • Daylight Savings • Sabbath and the King • The Confession of Brother Signet

Mad Norwegian Press

Novels	The Book of the War • This Town Will Never Let Us Go (prologue) • Dead Romance • Of the City of the Saved... (prologue) • Warlords of Utopia (prologue) • Warring States (prologue) • Erasing Sherlock (prologue)

Short stories	Toy Story • The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic • Grass • The Night is Long, and Dreams Are Legion • Unification Theory

factionparadox.co.uk

Short stories	Blood Ties: Inside the Grandfather's House • Faction Armour: Some Design Notes • The Eleven-Day Empire: A Tour of the Capital • Crimes Against History

Features	The Story So Far: Faction Paradox, as Much as It's Known

Image Comics

Political Animals • Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses

Magic Bullet Productions

The True History
of Faction Paradox

Coming to Dust • The Ship of a Billion Years • Body Politic • Words from Nine Divinities • Ozymandias • The Judgment of Sutekh

Random Static

Newtons Sleep • The Return of the King

Obverse Books

Novels

Against Nature (prologue) • The Brakespeare Voyage • Head of State • Weapons Grade Snake Oil • Spinning Jenny

A Romance in Twelve Parts	Storyteller • Gramps • Mightier Than the Sword • Now or Thereabouts • Nothing Lasts Forever • Library Pictures • Holding Pattern • A Story of the Peace • Print the Legend • Tonton Macoute • Alchemy • A Hundred Words from a Civil War

Burning with Optimism's Flames	Raleigh Dreaming • Office Politics • ...and from the Tower She Did Fall • La Santa Muerte • Dos Hombres - A Fable • All the Fun of the Fear • Wing Finger • The Strings • Squatters Rights • After the Velvet Eon • Remake/Remodel • Dharmayuddha • A Star’s View of Caroline • De Umbris Idearum

Liberating Earth	Playing for Time • Dreamer in the Dark • Annie's Arms • The Mountains are Higher at Home • Judy's War • Red Rover Red Rover • The Víkingr Mystique • Life of Julia • Project Thunderbird

The Book of the Enemy	Subjective Interlock • The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A • Cobweb and Ivory • The Book of the Enemy • T.memeticus: A Morphology • The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale • A Bloody (And Public) Domaine • Life-Cycle • First Draft • Eyes • We Are the Enemy • Timeshare • A Choice of Houses • Houses of Cards • The Enemy - The Hole in Everything • The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy • No Enemy But Despair • The Map and the Spiders • Pre-narrative Briefings

The Book of the Peace	The Ugly Spirit (Unsent letter) • What Keeps Their Lines Alive (A Scene ) • Going Once, Going Twice (The Story So Far..., Daring Initiation, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) • Jukebox • A Farewell to Arms (A Farewell to R.M.S., A Prelude to a Prelude, A Shift in Focus) • And To Dust We Shall Return • War During Peacetime (Inside the Looking Glass) • The End of the Beginning (Pure Light) • A Man Lays Dying