Stories Book Faction Paradox Novels The Book of the War 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews Statistics Quotes Overview Released Tuesday, September 17, 2002 Written by Daniel O'Mahony, Lawrence Miles, Simon Bucher-Jones, Mark Clapham, Kelly Hale, Mags L. Halliday, Philip Purser-Hallard, Ian McIntire, Helen Fayle, Jonathan Dennis, Lars Pearson Pages 272 Time Travel Past, Present, Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) LGBTQA+, Cult, Occult Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) War in Heaven Location (Potential Spoilers!) City of the Saved, The Eleven Day Empire, Gallifrey, Hollywood, Russia Synopsis 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… Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters Compassion The Shift The War King First Appearance Anastasia Romanova George II Rasputin Sophocles Vlad the Impaler Beast of the Hours Belial Devonire Formosii First Appearance Godfather-lieutenant Grandfather Paradox The Imperator First Appearance Morlock President of Dronid Lord Smoking Mirror James Thomson III Lords Twin Leopard Yssgaroth Chris Cwej Justine Laura Tobin First Appearance Octavia Sutherland First Appearance Michael Brookhaven First Appearance Robert Scarratt Richard Francis Burton Show All Characters (28) How to read The Book of the War: Books The Book of the War Reviews Add Review Edit Review Submit a Review Statistics AVG. Rating126 members 4.37 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating126 votes 4.37 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating2 votes 4.25 / 5 Member Statistics Read 15 Favourited 4 Reviewed 0 Saved 3 Skipped 0 Owned 1 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote
