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Author | John Grant |
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Cover artist | John Higgins (original edition) |
Series | Judge Dredd |
Genre | Science fiction Set in 2116 (Judge Dredd version) |
Publisher | Virgin Books (original) BeWrite Books (re-release) |
Publication date | August 1994 and March 2003 |
Pages | 272 (1994 edition) 344 (2003 edition) |
ISBN | 0-352-32942-4 (1994 edition) ISBN 1-904224-49-0 (2003 edition) |
Preceded by | Dread Dominion |
Followed by | Silencer |
The Hundredfold Problem is a science fiction novel written by John Grant.[1] The original version, published by Virgin Books in 1994, was based on the long-running British science fiction comic strip Judge Dredd. A new edition was published in 2003 by BeWrite Books, in which all references to Judge Dredd had been removed, and the lead character was a police officer called Dave Knuckle.
Synopsis (Judge Dredd version)
[edit]A four-million-year-old Dyson sphere has been discovered surrounding a red dwarf star orbiting the Sun, populated by the descendants of the Neanderthals. Mega-City One has enslaved its inhabitants and is using it as a prison to which to exile its worst criminals. When a feud on the sphere threatens to destroy it, Judges Dredd and "heavy-weapons-toting xeno-anthropologist and scantily clad babe" Petula McTavish are sent to protect it. However a malfunction in Dredd's teleportation to the sphere causes one hundred evil versions of him to be produced.
See also
[edit]Burning Heart by Dave Stone was another Judge Dredd novel which was rewritten without Dredd, and became a Doctor Who book in 1997, still published by Virgin Books. However the original version was never published.
References
[edit]- ^ "John Grant". sfbook.com. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
External links
[edit]- Judge Dredd: The Hundredfold Problem at the 2000 AD website.
- Review of the BeWrite edition by Stuart Jaffe at Infinity Plus