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38-722: Originally a subplot in the Eighth Doctor Adventures , the War involves several characters and concepts evolved from the original Doctor Who set-up. In several cases, the Faction Paradox series still features these groups, albeit with names changed for reasons both literary (most of the groups or items mentioned are described from different perspectives) and legal (the Faction and the Enemy are Miles's creations, but other elements are not – thus

76-530: A conversion process into a living TARDIS . The Time Lords, led by his old companion Romana , now President of the High Council, anxious to get their hands on this new TARDIS technology, pursue the Doctor, who loses his own TARDIS and continues to travel using Compassion. The conflict with Faction Paradox comes to a climax on Gallifrey, where the Doctor discovers his TARDIS in orbit around the planet, transformed into

114-484: A giant structure of living bone by the Faction. The Doctor, faced with an impossible decision, destroys the Faction and causes major damage to the timeline by apparently wiping his homeworld and his people from history. Much later, it is revealed that four Time Lords had survived the catastrophe: The Doctor, the Master , Iris Wildthyme and Marnal. Meanwhile, having rescued the Doctor from near-death, Compassion leaves

152-511: A renegade voodoo cult of time travellers who believed in creating time paradoxes and altering history . They also meet the Doctor's old friend Iris Wildthyme , a Time Lady from Gallifrey who travels in a TARDIS shaped like a London double-decker bus . When Sam leaves the TARDIS, the Doctor and Fitz are joined by Compassion , a member of a once-human race called the Remote who slowly begins

190-433: A series of guidebooks to Doctor Who , deviates from this formula somewhat by examining the political and cultural context (as well as the development of television) that influenced Doctor Who on a year-by-year basis during its initial 26-year run (from 1963 to 1989). From 2002 to 2006, Mad Norwegian produced a series of Faction Paradox novels, using concepts and characters as created by Lawrence Miles . The company has

228-902: A series of new companions , who never appeared in the television programme. They are: Mad Norwegian Press Mad Norwegian Press is an American publisher of science-fiction guides and novels. The company has worked with authors such as Harlan Ellison , Peter David , Diana Gabaldon , Tanya Huff , Emma Bull , Elizabeth Bear , Mary Robinette Kowal , Seanan McGuire , Barbara Hambly , Martha Wells , Juliet E. McKenna , Aliette de Bodard , Jody Lynn Nye , Catherynne M. Valente , Rachel Swirsky , Melissa Scott , Hal Duncan , Lee Mandelo , Mary Anne Mohanraj , Nancy Holder , Sharon Shinn , Jeanne C. Stein , Colleen Doran , Jill Thompson , Jen Van Meter , Marjorie Liu , Sarah Monette , Mark Waid , Lyda Morehouse , Paul Magrs , Gary Russell , Robert Shearman , Lance Parkin , Andrew Cartmel , Steve Lyons , Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood . Mad Norwegian

266-510: A version of their Decalog short story collections, and when the BBC ceased publishing them, a licence to continue was sought by Big Finish Productions , who published some for a while. They now continue to publish their own range of Short Trips collections as audios. In 2018, elements of the series were used in an officially licensed crossover story with the 10,000 Dawns series, titled White Canvas , alongside elements of Faction Paradox . This

304-866: The BBC Books imprint. 73 books were published overall. Between 1991 and 1997, Virgin Publishing had been producing a successful series of spin off novels under the New Adventures and Missing Adventures ranges. However, following the Doctor Who television movie which introduced the Eighth Doctor in 1996, the BBC did not renew Virgin Publishing 's license to continue publishing Doctor Who material, instead opting to publish their own range. Virgin's last New Adventures novel, The Dying Days by Lance Parkin , featured

342-749: The Eighth Doctor Adventures had also written for the Virgin series, many elements from the New Adventures began to appear in both the EDAs and the Past Doctor Adventures (which replaced the Missing Adventures ), and such continuity has been broadly maintained. Virgin had distinguished the New and Missing Adventures with different cover designs . BBC Books, however, did not differentiate their novels featuring

380-483: The Faction Paradox series. 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 centred on two Cousins of the Faction, Justine and Eliza. (Justine had previously featured in the BBC novel Alien Bodies , and Eliza appeared in Dead Romance as "Christine Summerfield".) The first two stories were set in

418-539: 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. Their time machines are bigger on

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456-709: The BBV audios, these stories focused on Cousin Justine and Cousin Eliza, but the characters were recast. The dramas in the series, released between 2005 and 2009, have featured guest stars including Julian Glover , Peter Miles , Philip Madoc and Gabriel Woolf . Woolf plays the ancient Egyptian god Sutekh , whom he had previously played in the 1975 Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars . The six titles are: In 2007, New Zealand-based publisher Random Static announced they would be publishing further Faction Paradox novels. What turned out to be

494-633: The Doctor's mind and discovers the reason why the Doctor has lost his memory. Just prior to destroying Gallifrey, the Doctor (with Compassion's help) downloaded the contents of the Gallifreyan Matrix — the massive computer network containing the mental traces of every Time Lord living and dead — into his brain, with his own memories suppressed to make room for the data. Gallifrey had not actually been erased from history, but an event horizon in relative time prevented anyone from Gallifrey's past to travel beyond Gallifrey's destruction, and vice versa. Both

532-411: The Doctor's personal nemesis. The Doctor loses his second heart, which was slowly killing him as it was his only link to his now-forgotten homeworld. Sabbath takes the heart and implants it in his own body, tying him and the Doctor together. Through several more adventures, the Doctor and his companions encounter Sabbath again and Trix MacMillan stows away aboard the TARDIS. Sabbath subsequently loses

570-539: The Doctor's time-sensitive heart and the Doctor grows a new one. The Doctor also begins to recover fragments of his memory, and discovers that Sabbath is working for a group called the Council of Eight. The Council wants to collapse the alternate timelines of the multiverse into one, manageable timeline. To them, the Doctor is a rogue element that needs to be controlled or eliminated. They also begin to eliminate his previous companions from time. Trix comes out of hiding, joining

608-466: The Eighth Doctor. The Eighth Doctor Adventures began in 1997 with The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks and continued until 2005. These novels all feature the Eighth Doctor, as portrayed in the 1996 television movie by Paul McGann . It is unclear if the BBC line was originally intended to be a continuation of the continuity established in the New Adventures . However, as many of the writers for

646-502: The Eleven-Day Empire; the second two in 18th century London; and the last two were split between Justine's pre-Faction past and the Great Houses' prison facility . Although there were six releases and an ongoing story, each pair (usually released close together) formed a two-part story. In order they were: June 2021 saw the return to BBV of the series as audio downloads Also, a 5-minute video crossover with BBV's P.R.O.B.E. series

684-460: The Great Houses are the Faction Paradox range's equivalent to Doctor Who' s Time Lords ). Faction Paradox themselves are not the enemy in this War, and play a neutral part, willing to act against both sides in their own interests. Miles has described them as "a ritualistic time-travelling guerrilla organisation". The semi-mythical founder of Faction Paradox is Grandfather Paradox, named after

722-404: The War , and The Adventuress of Henrietta Street . 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 Faction Paradox Protocols , although the first CD was also written to be accessible to newcomers. Like

760-587: The War . In 2012, Obverse Books launched a series of anthologies set in the City of the Saved , a setting first introduced and explored in the Faction Paradox series. Eighth Doctor Adventures 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

798-447: The crew, and Anji leaves the TARDIS. Sabbath eventually realises that the council is not human and turns on his masters. Miranda, now a grown woman with a daughter, also returns to help her adopted father defeat the council, but both she and Sabbath die in the process. Eventually, the Doctor returns to Earth in 2005 and discovers that another Time Lord, Marnal, has also survived the destruction of Gallifrey. Marnal, who also claims to be

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836-522: The current and past Doctors in this way, although they were listed separately within the books. Fans continued to distinguish the ongoing story of the Eighth Doctor from the more stand-alone adventures of past Doctors, although some plot elements did cross over both ranges. With the revival of the television series, BBC Books ceased the regular Eighth Doctor Adventures in favour of a new range (the New Series Adventures ), featuring characters from

874-610: The events of the 2005 series has yet to be chronicled. The Eighth Doctor Adventures line ends with The Gallifrey Chronicles . Although one further novel featuring the Eighth Doctor ( Fear Itself by Nick Wallace ) was published under the Past Doctor Adventures line before BBC Books decided to retire the PDAs as well, that book takes place prior to Timeless . It remains to be seen if the events of The Gallifrey Chronicles will be followed up by any future novel. The Doctor has

912-421: The far future, and the Doctor goes on to meet Fitz as arranged, thanks to a note Compassion slipped into his pocket a century before. Following that, the two are joined by Anji Kapoor , a London stock trader and the three leave Earth in the TARDIS. Much later, while on Earth in the eighteenth century, the Doctor, Fitz and Anji encounter Sabbath , a Secret Service operative who is aware of time travel and becomes

950-585: The first two issues of a Faction Paradox comic were produced by Mad Norwegian and published by Image Comics . The series was subsequently cancelled. The comic was written by Lawrence Miles with art from Jim Calafiore and inks by Peter Palmiotti . It was set after the events of the War in Heaven, though due to its short run it did not give much detail on the post-War universe. It tied into events described in The Faction Paradox Protocols , The Book of

988-509: The inside, in much the same way as TARDISes are, and the familial titles its members use (e.g. "Father", "Cousin") reference family units which the Great Houses lost when they became sterile. 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, they typically wear ritual skull masks which are in fact

1026-831: The missing 11 days as their base (building on the illogicity that only the numbering scheme changed and no days were actually "missing"). After a brief mention of Grandfather Paradox in the Virgin New Adventures novel Christmas on a Rational Planet , Faction Paradox and the War in Heaven made their debut in BBC Books ' Eighth Doctor novels . The most relevant books to the Faction Paradox universe are: Several other Doctor Who novels featured or referenced Faction Paradox, most notably The Ancestor Cell (written by Stephen Cole and Peter Anghelides in 2000), The Quantum Archangel (written by Craig Hinton in 2001), and The Gallifrey Chronicles (written by Lance Parkin in 2005), but were contradicted or otherwise ignored in

1064-432: The new series. One further novel featuring the Eighth Doctor ( Fear Itself ) was published under the Past Doctor Adventures line before it too ceased publication. In addition to the Eighth Doctor Adventures and the Past Doctor Adventures, the BBC also published three short story collections under the title of Short Trips which feature all eight (at the time of publication) Doctors. These were also inherited from Virgin,

1102-429: The now-amnesiac Doctor on Earth in the late 19th century while she drops Fitz off in 2001 to await the long process of the Doctor's — and the now- embryonic TARDIS's — recovery. She then departs for parts unknown. The Doctor spends the next hundred years travelling the world and living through its history, eventually adopting Miranda , a young girl with two hearts . Miranda leaves the Doctor to face her own destiny in

1140-431: The ongoing War in Heaven; despite the series' name, the Faction and its members are not the focus, sometimes featuring only as minor characters, and sometimes not appearing at all. The books also featured characters from the Doctor Who novels, including Chris Cwej and Compassion . Mad Norwegian also republished the Virgin New Adventures novel Dead Romance as part of their Faction Paradox line in 2003. In 2003,

1178-448: The original owner of the Doctor's TARDIS, blames the Doctor for the cataclysm, and takes him and the TARDIS captive while the insectoid alien Vore invade the Earth. After a cold fusion explosion guts the interior of the TARDIS, the Doctor discovers that K-9 Mark II had been aboard all along, with orders from Lady President Romana of Gallifrey to kill him. However, K-9 pauses once it scans

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1216-570: The planet and the Time Lords can be restored, along with the Doctor's memory, if a sufficiently sophisticated computer could be found to reconstruct them. Before that can be done, however, there is the problem of the Vore to contend with. At novel's end, the Doctor, Trix and Fitz are set to confront the Vore invasion force. The restoration of Gallifrey, in time for its second destruction in the Time War prior to

1254-636: The skulls of vampirised members of the Great Houses who, in the Great Houses' version of history, never existed. Their stronghold on Earth exists in a version of London, within what they call "The Eleven-Day Empire", bought from the British government in 1752. In that year, the British Empire first adopted the Gregorian calendar , and in so doing had to correct their dating scheme by 11 days (2 September 1752 being followed by 14 September 1752). Faction Paradox claimed

1292-578: The sole title of the new range was published in January 2008. The cover art, by Emma Weakley, won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Artwork in 2009. In June 2010, Obverse Books acquired a license to produce collections of Faction Paradox short stories and longer fiction. In 2019, Obverse Books published a first story featuring Faction Hollywood, a group introduced by Jonathan Dennis in The Book of

1330-401: The video series Hellscape: MorningStar. In 2002 Mad Norwegian Press published a multi-author faux-encyclopedia to the first 50 years of the War in Heaven, edited by Faction Paradox creator Lawrence Miles , as a companion to the BBV audios. After the success of The Book of the War , Mad Norwegian began publishing a Faction Paradox series of novels set in the same universe. These novels roam

1368-642: Was founded by Lars Pearson , a former staffer at Wizard Magazine , and is based in Des Moines, Iowa. The majority of the company's output is reference guides to science-fiction series such as Doctor Who , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Angel and The X-Files . As a rule of thumb, such guides examine the continuity that governs each show --- taking into consideration how different episodes reconcile against each other, for instance --- along with critiques, theorizing and behind-the-scenes details. The "About Time" series,

1406-411: Was later published in print form in the anthology, 10,000 Dawns: The Outer Universe Collection . Following the events of the 1996 Doctor Who television movie , the Eighth Doctor picks up a British teenager from 1997, Samantha "Sam" Jones , and later a disaffected drifter in his late twenties named Fitz Kreiner from 1963. During their adventures, the threesome tangle with the Faction Paradox ,

1444-469: Was released. Lawrence Miles said of these productions, 'I no longer have full control over the copyright, but I strongly recommend that you don't buy any Faction Paradox material from BBV.' On August 28 2023, BBV Productions continued, as promised, the Hellscape series as a Faction Paradox spin off with the first half of the audio series's second season (titled The Lilium Saga) and a free episode (episode 5) of

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