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Faction Paradox: The Boulevard
Faction Paradox: The Boulevard vol. 2
The Boulevard (Faction Paradox: Location Unknown)
More formally, The Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities, the Boulevard is a Faction Paradox prison, created from a myriad of streets and buildings ripped from time at the moment of their destruction. Every cell is potentially infinitely large (or terrifyingly small), and each is tailored to the fears (amongst other less welcome emotions) of its occupant.
Presented herein are selected tales of just a few of the prisoners…
Some you might expect – a nameless time travelling Vietnamese Cousin lost in Ming era China, say – and some of the locations might not be too surprising – an office about to collapse, in an eternal loop of computerised warning, perhaps – but why is Paul Cheyne, sitting on an Edinburgh bus, full of vodka and cocaine, in a tight t-shirt and the gayest t-shirt on the planet, a figure to catch the Faction’s eye?
And what about a tale reminiscent of a 1968 Polish sf tv play, made from an outline by Stanislaw Lem, writing in response to a smuggled copy of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville?
The only certainty is this: there’s room for all sorts in the Boulevard.
More formally, The Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities, the Boulevard is a Faction Paradox prison, created from a myriad of streets and buildings ripped from time at the moment of their destruction. Every cell is potentially infinitely large (or terrifyingly small), and each is tailored to the fears (amongst other less welcome emotions) of its occupant.
Presented herein are selected tales of just a few of the prisoners…
Some you might expect – a nameless time travelling Vietnamese Cousin lost in Ming era China, say – and some of the locations might not be too surprising – an office about to collapse, in an eternal loop of computerised warning, perhaps – but why is Paul Cheyne, sitting on an Edinburgh bus, full of vodka and cocaine, in a tight t-shirt and the gayest t-shirt on the planet, a figure to catch the Faction’s eye?
And what about a tale reminiscent of a 1968 Polish sf tv play, made from an outline by Stanislaw Lem, writing in response to a smuggled copy of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville?
The only certainty is this: there’s room for all sorts in the Boulevard.
286 pages, Hardcover
First published January 17, 2024
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About the author
Simon Bucher-Jones
62 books23 followersSimon Bucher-Jones is a British author, poet, artist, and amateur actor, best known for his Doctor Who novels for Virgin and the BBC and as a contributor to the Faction Paradox spin-off series.
He is known for a hard SF approach. He has also written Cthulhu Mythos short stories. He also reviewed books for the Fortean Times, and for small press papers. He maintains a blog at http://www.simonbjones.blogspot.com where he is, among other projects, gradually turning all the Star Wars films into Shakespearean plays. He also markets a range of Cthulhu Mythos artwork t-shirts and mugs. He is also a major contributor of 'hidden cities' to the 'blind atlas' meme. His poetry has appeared in the Journal of the British Fantasy Society.
He is known for a hard SF approach. He has also written Cthulhu Mythos short stories. He also reviewed books for the Fortean Times, and for small press papers. He maintains a blog at http://www.simonbjones.blogspot.com where he is, among other projects, gradually turning all the Star Wars films into Shakespearean plays. He also markets a range of Cthulhu Mythos artwork t-shirts and mugs. He is also a major contributor of 'hidden cities' to the 'blind atlas' meme. His poetry has appeared in the Journal of the British Fantasy Society.
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