Lawrence Miles Lawrence Miles wrote several Doctor Who and Bernice Summerfield novels and created the Faction Paradox series . He introduced Faction Paradox and the Time Lord s ' Future War in his 1997 Eighth Doctor novel " Alien Bodies " . At the time , he never intended for it to become a large arc : " It was never supposed to be a big murder - mystery type of thing , with this huge question hovering over it . At the time , I was planning on revealing who the enemy was in the next book I did , but Stephen Cole stopped me doing it . " The first draft of his 1999 novel " Interference " barely even mentioned Faction Paradox , but upon learning that Kate Orman planned to include them in " Unnatural History " , he felt emboldened to do more with them . At its release , " Interference " was the only two - part novel ever released by BBC Books , and it garnered widespread controversy . Although fans on the Internet liked and supported " Interference " , extremely negative reviews like Ness Bishop ' s in DWM 281 made Miles feel that he had " lost [ his ] mandate " , and on 17 August 1999 he posted his resignation from writing Doctor Who . Instead , he began working on the " Faction Paradox " series , and by the year 2000 BBV Productions agreed to However , he returned to BBC Books in 2002 with " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " , which introduced the major recurring villain Sabbath . " I didn ' t write " Adventuress " because I had the desperate urge to write another book , " Miles said . " I did it because I needed a job . " The first story in the Faction Paradox series , the two - part audio story " The Eleven Day Empire " and " The Shadow Play " , was released in 2001 . Due to the audios ' popularity , BBV Productions switched their previously anthology - style Audio Adventures in Time & Space range to exclusively focus on Faction Paradox audios . However , BBV cancelled its audio line in 2004 , ending the Faction Paradox Protocols . Looking for a new publisher , Miles was impressed by the actors at Magic Bullet Productions and reached out to Alan Stevens ; though the resultant True History of Faction Paradox series was designed as a stand - alone release , it featured the characters of Justine and Eliza from the Protocols audios . Meanwhile , the first Faction Paradox book , " The Book of the War " , was published by Mad Norwegian Press in 2002 with Miles as both main contributor and editor . This release was followed first by Miles ' novel " This Town Will Never Let Us Go " and then by a string of Faction Paradox novels edited by Miles and published by Mad Norwegian . When Mad Norwegian cancelled the line in 2006 and the rights passed to Random Static , Miles continued as editor , but Random Static published only one Faction Paradox novel in 2007 before the rights were passed on to Obverse Books . Miles edited Obverse ' s first Faction Paradox book , the 2011 anthology " A Romance in Twelve Parts " , before ending his involvement in the series . However , the first two Obverse - published Faction Paradox novels , " Against Nature " and " The Brakespeare Voyage " , had been edited by Miles while he was still working with the range . In 2003 , Miles wrote a Faction Paradox comic , which Mad Norwegian published through Image Comics . Due to a variety of reasons , only two issues of the comic were produced and published ; however , at the same time , Mad Norwegian began working with Miles on a series of Doctor Who reference guides . In these " About Time " books , cowritten with Tat Wood , Miles presented his perspective on seasons 1 through 21 of the classic Doctor Who series . Miles would later review many episodes of the modern Doctor Who series on his blog . Despite spending much of his writing career on the Faction Paradox series , Miles considered Doctor Who inescapable and feared that he had been " tainted for life " . He would later affectionately called it part of his " native mythology " .