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Faction Paradox @factionparadox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Now available in paperback! THE BOULEVARD VOLUME 2 edited by @simonbucherjones.bsky.social ROSE-COLOURED CROSSHAIRS by @blairbidmead.bsky.social

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Faction Paradox @faction-paradox.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Well, well, well! Look who it is! Auteur debuted in the #FactionParadox anthologies The Book of the Enemy and The Book of the Peace, both still available from @obversebooks.co.uk… obversebooks.co.uk/product/the-... obversebooks.co.uk/product/fact...

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Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Nominated in science fiction for the 2026 Small Spec Book Awards: ROSE-COLOURED CROSSHAIRS by Blair Bidmead (@obversebooks). Congratulations! #SSBA #SSBA2026

Shows the book cover for ROSE-COLORED CROSSHAIRS

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Osfin @osfinexe.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

My interpretation of Shuncucker from Faction Paradox, I love vaguely sapphic women with large ammounts of weapons.

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 02/01/2026

We're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range. Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 04/11/2025

A brilliant writer and editor! We were so lucky and delighted to get her for Liberating Earth!

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Faction Paradox @faction-paradox.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Tonight, the #FactionParadox website is proud to present an exclusive interview with @kateorman.bsky.social, editor of "Liberating Earth" for @obversebooks.co.uk — and a new vignette tying in with that book's framing story! factionparadox.co.uk/interview-01... factionparadox.co.uk/greatpearlgi...

A cropped version of the illustration for Kate Orman's new Faction Paradox prose vignette Great Pearl Girl. It is a black-and-white image depicting a four-headed ram-god similar to Banebdjedet, standing against a stark black sky lit by a single sun or moon. Each ram-head has only a single eye, and those of the two central heads merge together into one, making three eyes in all.

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 21/07/2025

Thanks to patient cooperation from Obverse, this is the definitive print version of OtCotS, with deleted text restored and all the wild excesses of formatting and illustration I originally envisaged. It includes my two short story sequels, "A Hundred Words from a Civil War" and "God Encompasses".

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 21/07/2025

Well, this may be of interest to some. obversebooks.co.uk/product/of-t...

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 22/06/2025

Samantha Jones…Faction Paradox…the Amnesiac Doctor…Sabbath…Iris Wildthyme…Compassion…President Romana… Come with us to 1998, where there’s a party still going on… Meet old friends and new in a treasury of tales celebrating the most joyful of all the Doctors Who. obversebooks.co.uk/product/part...

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

that time people said "who has some Faction Paradox pitches" and I went "want a story told entirely in comic script with Beano-style dialogue" and they said "you son of a bitch, we're in": obversebooks.co.uk/product/fact...

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 23/05/2025

What would you all say to a shiny reprint of @purserhallard.com's genuinely seminal FP novel,' ...Of the City of the Saved'? All new layout, with new illustrations by Nick Hallard and new content? We've done 6 City anthologies - now it's time that the original, as you might say, joined Obverse!

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Faction Paradox @factionparadox.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Looks like The Boulevard Volume 2 is now out of stock in the limited edition hardback (and may have been for a while - apologies for not noticing!) Paperback to follow in the near future! (And ROSE-COLOURED CROSSHAIRS, the new Spiral Politic novella, is rapidly selling out in hardback too!)

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Blair Bidmead @blairbidmead.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The cover of my new Faction Paradox novella, 'Rose-Coloured Crosshairs'! Available to buy as an ebook and pre-order as a limited edition hardback from @obversebooks.bsky.social now! #books

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Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk · 28/04/2025

Out now in electronic format and for pre-order in limited edition hardback - and at a sale price too! ROSE-COLOURED CROSSHAIRS by Blair Bidmead, the latest visit to the Worlds of the Spiral Politic! #factionparadox #doctorwho obversebooks.co.uk/product/worl...

The book cover, showing a man with a chameleon head, holding an elongated skull, with a futuristic city in the background. Original painting by Lawrence Burton. Cover design by Cody Schell.

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Faction Paradox @factionparadox.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It's Bandcamp Friday - so why not snap up one of the last remaining copies of THE ELEVEN DAY EMPIRE on cd? obversebooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-el...

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The Eleven Day Empire, by Mike Dickinson

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Faction Paradox @faction-paradox.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

New #FactionParadox artwork! We're happy to announce that the Spiral Politic Database has been updated with six original character portraits by the amazing Galadriel Coffeen — from Cousin Justine to the mysterious Sabbath Dei… factionparadox.co.uk/spiralpoliti...

A portrait of Sabbath Dei, a tall, portly man with close-cropped black hair in black 18th century dress. He wears a neutral, superficial expression. In his right hand is a bloodied shard of jagged glass, and he is holding up his left forearm to display several long-healed scars.

A portrait of Lilith, or Lolita, a pale, strikingly beautiful, aristocratic woman wearing golden jewelry and a velvety black dress. She is holding a swaddled baby, but her expression, staring straight ahead at the viewer, is one of ruthless ambition?

A portrait of Cousin Eliza of the Faction Paradox Military Wing, a muscular young woman wearing a sleeveless black top, with short black hair. Her arms are crossed, and she is smirking.

A painting of Godfather Morlock, head of the Faction Paradox Bio-Research Wing. He is a large, middle-aged man wearing a bloodstaned leather apron as he carries out a biodata autopsy. His skull mask is mounted with spectacles like a jeweler's, and his unkempt gray hair spills out from behind it.

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