#erasing sherlock

erasing sherlock (novel: 2006)

Lawrence Miles planned at least fifty volumes of the Faction Paradox Protocols audios, with lots more of Compassion Mary Culver and even a meeting between Godfather Sabbath and Service Sabbath. Instead we got six audios and a cliffhanger!

Lawrence Miles planned at least twenty issues of the Faction Paradox comic, including something about North American cannibalism. Instead, the series was cancelled while issue three was in production!

Lars Pearson said it was “virtually certain” that the comic story cliffhanger would be wrapped up somehow, and he thought about a script book, but nothing ever panned out.

Speaking of comics, Paul “Brax” Castle was going to print one of Miles’ rejected DWM ideas (about the Cybermen no less!) in a fanzine around the time of Adventuress, but ???

There was lots of material written for The Book of the War, including more from Lance Parkin and Daniel O’Mahony, that was cut from the final copy.

There were also plans for an expanded edition CD-ROM of The Book of the War with hyperlinks and new material from the original authors. Instead it went out of print. Now copies sell for hundreds of dollars and there’s no plans for an official ebook, completely stranding new fans who are interested in the series.

In 2003 there were talks with a Warner Brothers subsidiary about a Faction Paradox film, but they stopped replying after Lawrence Miles described the project as “Amadeus with monsters”.

Also something about Miles and Matt Jones talking about a TV series?

“From the creators of Faction Paradox ... Partizan Empire”

In 2005 Miles and Philip Purser-Hallard co-wrote a pilot script for a radio sitcom set in the City of the Saved, and it was actually recorded with real actors, but it has yet to appear anywhere.

Also in 2005 Miles and Lars Pearson were planning an “epic / world-shattering” book to redefine the Faction Paradox series after Erasing Sherlock. Instead, Lars cancelled the series! Aaahahahaha!

In 2009 Miles started building a 3D reconstruction of the Eleven-Day Empire in Metaplace and invited everyone to join him when it was finished. Then he retracted the invite dammit

(This is only tangentially related, but Miles also planned the rest of the Book of the World series but never got around to writing it)

There was a significantly-better Lawrence Miles edit of the already-great Newtons Sleep, but the Random Static CEO vetoed it and went with her own cut.

Jim Mortimore pitched a beautiful novel called Heart Full of Sky to Random Static in 2008, but he bowed out “when editorial re-versioning and continuity changes to the proposal alone ran to nearly 10,000 words.”

Jim Mortimore’s novella Opus Majus was announced in 2012 and never surfaced. In 2017 he said he was still doing research for it?!?

Kelly Hale’s novella The Moontree Women was also announced in 2012 and never surfaced. In 2015 she said she was thinking about working on it again, but there’s been no news since.

Also in 2015 Kelly Hale said she was considering working on a sequel to Erasing Sherlock or an expansion of her FP short story Project Thunderbird. But the ES sequel can’t be part of the FP series due to a conflict of interest with Obverse, so it might never be published.

Also also in 2015 Wallowing in Pessimism’s Mire was released, then literally unpublished and is now completely impossible to find anywhere!

I have no words

[Image: screenshot of two Tumblr posts back to back.

tardistogongen - You can always tell when a Faction Paradox fan has crossed the fandom event horizon because they pony up the money for a physical copy of “Erasing Sherlock”.

Hi. I ( @notesinthearchives ) have attached the prelude to Erasing Sherlock below. Again: sorry about the low quality of the images. Hope these help.