Faction Paradox
Faction Paradox: A Romance in Twelve Parts (Hardback)
‘What’s that? Did I hear you ask what romance has to do with
anything, little Cousin? You do surprise me. Why Romance is
Story itself, nothing less than that. Romance is the tale with
which a cunning man winkles out a widow’s secrets and an
honest one breaks his beloved’s heart. Romance locks us away
and sets us free, brings us great pleasure and also great pain,
is the thread which binds all other stories together.
Dear me, little Cousin, I expected better of you…’
— Godfather Valentine, Dresden, 1928
NB This title is also available as an epub formatted file.
More Details
* Dave Hoskin (Short Trips: Transmissions)
* Philip Purser-Hallard (Of the City of the Saved…, Peculiar Lives, Iris Wildthyme & the Celestial Omnibus)
* Stuart Douglas (Miss Wildthyme and Friends Investigate, Voices from the Past)
* Matt Kimpton (Chief Skald of Suffolk)
* Jon Dennis (The Book of the War, Bernice Summerfield: Secret Histories)
* Jay Eales (Factor Fiction)
* Ian Potter (No Tomatoes, Short Trips, Rise and Rise of the Independents)
* Daniel O’Mahony (Falls the Shadow, Newtons Sleep, Cabinet of Light)
* David N Smith (Bernice Summerfield: Collected Works) and Violet Addison (Short Trips – How The Doctor Changed My Life)
* Scott Harrison (Dark Fiction’s Twelve Days)
* James Milton (Short Trips: Transmissions)
* Blair Bidmead (The Panda Book of Horror)
Reviews
“A Romance in Twelve Parts is undoubtedly the strongest publication by Obverse Books to date. Its twelve stories are astonishingly different in content and style yet match in flavour. Offering glimpses of a vast and bewildering universe, this anthology promises that there’s still a great many more stories to be told.” – Immaterial
“I enjoyed it, and would strongly recommend it to people who like fantastical sci-fi with a timey-wimey twist.” – Goodreads
“these tales are almost universally thoughtful, deserving of a more measured and attentive pace” – Prefect Slog
“‘A Romance in 12 Parts’ works so well for the same reason a great album works so well’” – The Terrible Zodin
OQ 2.1: Tales of the City
Beyond the end of the universe exists a city the size of a galaxy, packed with every human being that ever lived, from the first Australopithecus to the last posthuman, resurrected in a city in which nobody can die…or rather, that used to be the case.
The first ever “City of the Saved” short story collection, edited by the man who created it for the Faction Paradox Book of the War, Philip Purser-Hallard.
‘Akroates’ by Philip Purser-Hallard
‘Happily Ever After Is a High-Risk Strategy’ by Blair Bidmead
‘The Socratic Problem’ by Elizabeth Evershed
‘Lost Ships and Lost Lands’ by Juliet Kemp
‘Highbury’ by Helen Angove
‘Bruises’ by Dave Hoskin
‘About a Girl’ by Dale Smith
‘Apocalypse Day’ by Philip Purser-Hallard
Projected publication date: 01 June 2012.
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