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  Faction Paradox - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Faction Paradox themselves are not the Enemy, and play a relatively small part in the grand scheme of things, sitting on the sidelines of the War in Heaven.
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.
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.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Faction_Paradox   (1007 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article: Faction Paradox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faction Paradox take a perverse pride in causing time paradoxes and achieving impossible or ridiculous effects for their own sake.
Faction Paradox claimed the missing eleven days as their base (even though, logically, only the numbering scheme changed and no days were actually "missing").
Faction Paradox debuted and appeared repeatedly in the ongoing series of novels published by BBC books based on the characters and situations from the television series Doctor Who (additional info and facts about Doctor Who), depicting the adventures of the eighth incarnation of the Doctor.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fa/Faction_Paradox.htm   (850 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Faction Paradox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faction society was built on a family outline, new inductees being "brothers" or "sisters", most members known as "cousins", and the Grandfather at the top of the ladder.
Faction Paradox revolted, achieving the impossible, glorifying blood and chaos and things that were impossible under the physical laws of the universe.
Faction Paradox venerated ritual above technology, and though their methods were not purely within the realm of "magic", strong similarities can be understood between the way human voodoo-cults communicate with "Spirits" and the way Faction ritualists communicate with the body of time itself.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Faction_Paradox   (564 words)

  
 The Ancestor Cell
Faction Paradox intends to channel the energy of the attack through the compromised Matrix and use it to overlay their Shadow Parliament on Gallifrey; the Eleven-Day Empire will be relocated to the Capitol, and Faction Paradox will become the new Lords of Time.
The Doctor’s infection by the Paradox virus occurred when his eighth self inadvertently crossed his own timeline in Interference and changed his past, as a result of which his third self travelled to the planet Dust and was shot, triggering his regeneration.
Hence, “paradox.”) In the original, less bewildering timeline, his third self regenerated as a result of his battle with the giant spiders of Metebelis 3 in Planet of the Spiders.
www.drwhoguide.com /whobbc36.htm   (4316 words)

  
 Paradox (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Paradox is a self-contradictory or counter-intuitive statement or argument (List of Paradoxes).
Corel Paradox is a software product made by Corel.
PARADOX (warez) is one of the biggest internet warez/demo groups.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paradox_(disambiguation)   (132 words)

  
 Outpost Gallifrey: Articles and Features
Abandoning the prestige of the Great Houses, House Paradox came to be known as the "Faction Paradox", an outlaw group of renegades who caused the ultimate sacrilege by making no excuse for recruiting impure aliens, most of them criminals and madmen, into their ranks.
Faction Paradox were fashioned after the "grandfather paradox", the time old theory that going back in time to kill your grandfather would, through causality, avert your own existence.
Mathara, of Faction Paradox, is concerned to note there is no record whatsoever of the Edifice being a Faction construct and she fears it's origins.
www.gallifreyone.com /article.php?id=faction   (4572 words)

  
 Faction Paradox: This Town Will Never Let Us Go
The town’s culture sees Faction Paradox as a young, dynamic force that will put an end to the War, and the masks have become such a fashion statement that nobody who sees the masked Executive would ever believe they might be the real Faction.
When she tells the bellboy that her Executive is really Faction Paradox, he clearly doesn’t believe her, and, trying to be polite, he points out that surely, if people are more than their physical beings, then the “real” Faction Paradox must be more than just a bunch of masked people in a room.
The arrest of the so-called “Faction Four” now becomes top news, but on TV, they are revealed to be a shabby group of ordinary, disgruntled people; after their exposure, nobody will ever believe again that Faction Paradox is a grand, dangerous, shadowy conspiracy.
www.drwhoguide.com /paradox_n01.htm   (4719 words)

  
 Faction Paradox #1
Or, in the case of Faction Paradox, perhaps an entirely new life divorced from its roots in BBC Publishing.
Faction Paradox have turned up for the first time in a while in the hope of re-establishing their influence in the court.
What they're not mentioning is that the previous Faction Paradox story involved most of them taking a serious kicking in a fourth-dimensional war.
www.thexaxis.com /misc/factionparadox1.htm   (460 words)

  
 Calliope Comics presents Musings Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faction Paradox is a semi-unofficial spin-off from the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
Representatives of the diminished Faction travel back to London, 1774, to trade on their previously established reputations and mystique to establish new alliances, in the hopes of perpetuating their existence.
However, the Faction delegates find a number of other parties at work in the royal court, weaving schemes both overt and subtle, hoping to manipulate the English throne towards their ends.
www.javapadawan.com /calliope/imnsho09.html   (2672 words)

  
 Doctor Who Monsters and Villians - Faction Paradox
In the resulting fight against the Faction, during which Dark Sam went through various personality transformations, the Doctor discovered that it was the Faction that created Sam by tricking the Eighth Doctor to enter the reality scar with Dark Sam, and thus combining the Doctor's biodata with Sam's and altering her entire timeline.
Interference', the Doctor, Fitz and Sam were summoned to Earth in an attempt to prevent the Faction acquiring an ancient evil called the Cold that was sealed away by Rassilon.
Whatever brought him there, be it the Faction or a mistake in the temporal calculations the Doctor was making, the Eighth Doctor altered his own timeline by alerting the Third Doctor to the Faction's existence, as it didn't happen until his fourth incarnation.
www.whotopia.keen2host.co.uk /drwho/monsters/faction-paradox.htm   (1751 words)

  
 Faction Paradox Debuts In August
In short, the Faction’s involved in a power struggle with other time traveling organizations and powers, each of them seeking to usurp the timeline and one-up their opponents.
Faction Paradox is also present, trying to get a toehold in King George’s court, because whomever controls the late 1700s will control a lot of history.
FACTION PARADOX #1, written by Lawrence Miles with artwork by Jim Calafiore (pencils), Peter Palmiotti (inks) and Paul Mounts (colors) will be available for order in the July issue of Previews and will arrive in stores in August 2003.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/105305700070370,print.htm   (1034 words)

  
 Faction Paradox
Faction Paradox was founded as ‘House Paradox’ by Grandfather Paradox, and has rarely felt the need to express itself more subtly than that.
The Faction Paradox universe is a fictional milieu created by Lawrence Miles for a series of comics, novels and audio dramas published by Mad Norwegian Press and BBV.
A huge amount of Faction Paradox material by Lawrence and others – including history, social structure and the instructions for a pageant – can be found at the unofficial Faction Paradox website.
www.thoughtplay.com /infinitarian/pf.html   (689 words)

  
 Faction Paradox #1 Review for Comics on GamePro.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Depicting London in 1774, Faction Paradox loosely follows two of King George III's servants while a pair of mysterious, skull-mask wearing yet respected foreigners are shown the King's new pet beast---a wooly mammoth.
The foreigners, representatives of something called Faction Paradox, waltz throughout the castle with a cocky demeanor, occasionally dropping bits of information about an age when time was not linear, how the mammoth is a relic of history that does not belong, and that before a great war, our worlds overlapped.
Faction Paradox appears to have all the elements of a sophisticated comic book.
www.gamepro.com /entertainment/books_comics/comics/reviews/30691.shtml   (632 words)

  
 Faction Paradox (Genki Forums)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faction Paradox is one of the most intelligent and unusual comic series I've ever read.
These ambassadors include two delegates from Faction Paradox, who look creepy as hell (they wear fl cloaks and their faces are animal skulls) and seem to be the ultimate criminal cult, subverting history for profit, or, at the very least, stepping in between different powers already warring across time, hoping to salvage something of use.
Xero, you might be particularly interested in picking up some of Faction Paradox, since you're into contemporary British science fantasy and this is about as good as it gets.
invisionfree.com /forums/GenkiForums/ar/t667.htm   (248 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Faction Paradox: This Town Will Never Let Us Go (Faction Paradox): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faction Paradox: Of the City of the Saved...
Cleverly the existence or non-exitence of Faction Paradox et al can be determined by the objective reader, with America's current 'War on Terror' making for some frighteningly fitting resonance's with Miles temporal war.
This is the first of Lawrence Miles' projected series of Faction Paradox novels, which is an off-shoot of a concept that he originally introduced in his Doctor Who novels.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0972595929   (661 words)

  
 docwho6
Faction's Paradox's invasion of the Matrix in the novel The Ancestor Cell ereased parts of Gallifrey's history.
This allows the Faction Paradox to use the energies of the Enemy's first assault to overlay the Eleven-Day Empire in the Capitol on Gallifrey.
The Matrix is completely taken over by the Paradox Virus and Gallifrey is conquered by the Faction Paradox.
www.geocities.com /willbswift/docwho6.html   (1539 words)

  
 The Faction Paradox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Faction lives for ritual: each member rises through the organisation by killing a selection of their own ancestors in a prescribed order and manner, thus breaking their connection to history (but if they screw the order up, they can wipe themselves from existence).
Hidden behind masks of bone, each member of the Faction is armed with a weapon attached to their shadow - the real world equivalent is not visible, but that makes the shadow version no less deadly.
The Faction's base is London, during the eleven days struck from the calender in 1752 when England finally joined the rest of Europe in using the Gregorian calender (see comments).
www.internationalhero.co.uk /f/factpara.htm   (483 words)

  
 TheFourthRail.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
However, while I found Hedge Knight to be instantly accessible, despite the many assurances of the editor in the back of Faction Paradox, I found that I generally couldn't quite work out what was meant to be going on, and that's even with knowing the general premise ahead of time.
In reading Faction Paradox, I'm mostly struck by a feeling that I'm being kept at arm's-length from the story, despite pages of text that spell out more of the history and text introductions by most of the creative team.
I'm not sure where Faction Paradox will wind up at the end, but I hope that some of the potential in this issue is realized, and that I'll come to view this somewhat confusing start as a necessary evil to building an intelligent and complex story.
www.thefourthrail.com /reviews/snapjudgments/080403/factionparadox1.shtml   (539 words)

  
 Outpost Gallifrey: Reviews
As a series opener one might be expected to be thrust straight into the heart of Faction Paradox universe (as per the audio series) — instead Miles focuses on the effect of the War on non-combatants — seemingly normal people in a contemporary place and time whose lives happen to be touched by the War.
She knows the real Faction use “sympathetic friction”, using icons and fetishes and manipulating them through their video images to rework them from every angle, conceptual and physical.
But, as it strengths are that it’s more genuine than “re-hash”, all subsequent Faction Paradox novels need do is be honest in their insights, and the readership will come.
www.gallifreyone.com /review.php?id=fp1   (2728 words)

  
 doc who3b
The Faction Agent Mother Tarra infiltrates the Academy by pretending to be the daughter of a councilor.
Unfortuatly the only option for undoing the Faction Paradox's invasion was to release the continuity of the Foreman Universe in a Bottle, which destroys Gallifrey.
Paradox Anxiety (the fear that one is trapped in a paradox) is now a major problem among the Time Lords.
www.geocities.com /willbswift/docwho3b.html   (11675 words)

  
 Faction Paradox: The Website - Faction Paradox Comic - Series Overview
Roughly speaking, *one* issue of the Faction Paradox comic cost about the same as *three* of the novels, not to mention the additional production headaches involved.
I deeply appreciate the support of the Faction Paradox readers--whom I'm quite proud of, and consider the cream of the crop as far as readers go--and we'll do our utmost to make the novels...
Click here for information on some of the Faction Paradox characters, plus information on the comic series' format.
www.madnorwegian.com /fp/fp_comic_overview.php   (1240 words)

  
 Barbelith Underground > Comic Books > Upcoming FACTION PARADOX comic from Image?
Faction Paradox is from the DW books, not the show.
I used to read the books, don't know who Faction Paradox is, but their site makes me very intrigued so...
Faction Paradox are one of the more interesting story ideas created since the show went off air.
www.barbelith.com /topic/12798   (330 words)

  
 The True History of Faction Paradox: Coming to Dust
However, there are three Englishmen who recognise that the creature is no mortal beast, but a harbinger of ancient evil from before the time of the Pharaohs-- and one which may presage the return of something thought long buried.
To prevent this, they must turn to Cousins Justine and Eliza, the mysterious representatives of the Faction Paradox-- but any dealings with the Faction Paradox always come at a price.
Faction Paradox was originally created by Lawrence Miles for the BBC's acclaimed Doctor Who series of novels.
www.kaldorcity.com /audios/faction/dust.html   (129 words)

  
 Barbelith Underground > Comic Books > Faction Paradox
The group wishing to gain favor with the King's court is Faction Paradox, and the only translation which is sensible for their cause is the War in Heaven.
The FP weren't "excised" from the books at all; rather, their storyline came to a close and all previous continuity became off limits, so there was no opportunity to revisit them.
Anyway, how is this Faction Paradox any different from those concepts, or...what does it bring new to the audience.
www.barbelith.com /topic/13643   (2182 words)

  
 BBV Online :: Online Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Even before the outbreak of the "War in Heaven", Faction Paradox was regarded as the most unpredictable (and opportunistic) of the time-active powers.
Right from its creation, the secret intelligence service of Great Britain was touched by a streak of ritual: its initiations were usually occult, its codes based on astrological or alchemical ciphers.
When Faction Paradox first entered Earth history in the 1700s, the Service took an immediate interest in the new arrivals' own ritual practices, and in the inevitable feud between British and Faction agents no single figure was as important as Sabbath.
www.bbvonline.co.uk /store/script.cgi?cat=audio_fp&browse   (512 words)

  
 BBV Online :: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lawrence Miles' Faction Paradox make their BBV debut in 'The Eleven Day Empire' which features Suzanne Proctor, Ellis Pike, Caroline Burns Cook (Ghosts), Emma Kilbey, Nigel Fairs (last seen in Do You Have a License to Save This Planet) and Linda Bartram.
For anyone who doesn't know Faction Paradox, the story's basically a great big gothic voodoo space-time opera." Lawrence is eager for the finished product, adding "This is the first time the Faction's been anything other than an abstract...
Joining the already announced FACTION PARADOX and ZYGONS stories is a return engagement for the mysterious "I", last seen in Lance Parkin's acclaimed I, SCREAM.
www.bbvonline.co.uk /news/script.cgi?&page=3   (988 words)

  
 Faction Paradox - Sabbath Dei
And now that Cousins Justine and Eliza of Faction Paradox are guests at Medenham Abbey, the Service may be preparing to strike.
In the confusion, however, a Serviceman escapes from the Abbey with a glass shard said to have been used by Mary Culver in the Supplication of the Anakim, a ritual ceremony used to open the supplicant’s body to outside influences.
Aware of Faction Paradox’s interest in ritual, Bute orders Sabbath to investigate the supplication ceremony and find out if it has any connection to the deaths at Portsmouth.
www.drwhoguide.com /bbv36.htm   (1092 words)

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