The Book of the War (Lawrence Miles et. al.)
Description from the original Leitner tourney:
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."
Propaganda: A text which purports to be a constantly shifting and updating guide to The War, a conflict so overarching and complete that every other conflict is but a pale shadow thereof; the Time War. Of course, since it would shift retroactively with the changing timelines, there is no way to prove or disprove this claim. Notable entries include cities built from days stolen from shifting calendars, the secrets of removing yourself from history while still leaving yourself free to interfere, Grandfather Paradox, the location of the exact center of history, how to weaponize banality, and Parablox.
Oh, and there's something else in there. Something that seems to be talking to you.
Additional propaganda from comments left on the Leitner polls
The Oracle of the Lost: #its one of those books that i can only read a few pages at a time because the Ideas get me #and it uses its position as obscure tie in literature that legally cant mention the source material to be more creative in its worldbuilding #also the art fucks
cosmik-homo: #just running jnto book of war stuff on tardis wiki is a near death experience. please #never found out tf a jurgen fuckin leitner is but. that dw book is evil magic
seveneyesoup: #BOOK OF THE WAR SWEEP #like getting slapped in the face from dimensions that don’t exist #and then when you get it. you Get It #no question i’ve experienced The Spiral from book of the war and Not from alice #even when i was a kid staying up way way too late reading through the looking glass which i didn’t know existed and got to the jabberwocky #complete with engraving page. i was like damn. weird. freaky beast in the forbidden wonderland book. #but nothing compared to reading about the time war i am fundamentally a more annoying person now #shoutout lawrence miles
…ish (Phil Pascoe)
The Sixth Doctor and Peri arrive at a lexicography conference with the intent of meeting the Doctor's old friend Professor Osefa de Palabra Hftzbrn, who has been working to publish the Lexicon, the largest collection of words and their definitions in existence. However, they find something fishy going on; the Professor is dead at her desk with a suicide note that is a mishmash of mishpellings. More issues begin to arrive as an astonishing lexical virus tarnishes the vishiting academics. Someone devilish at the conference wishes to unbanish the longest word in the unishverse, using the Professor's accomplishment to abolish language and demolish meaning. Can the Doctor and Peri rescue English, Spanish, Flemish, Kurdish, Swedish, ish, ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish ish
Spiral Doctor Who Final
The Book of the War (Lawrence Miles et. al.)
…ish (Phil Pascoe)
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