- Paperback: 246 pages
- Publisher: Virgin Books (20 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0352328959
- ISBN-13: 978-0352328953
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 898,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Judge Dredd features in the comic "2000 AD". He is a lawman of the future: judge, jury and executioner. In this story Mega-City One is under siege. A charismatic sociopath, Leviticus Thead, is holed up and if he isn't stopped hundreds of hostages will die.
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In Mega-City One Judge Dredd is going up against a block full of crazed cultists while in Brit-Cit Detective Armitage is busting a ring in diners eating human flesh - beyond all this an alien entity is attempting to invade reality, and a decades old plot is activated to repel the incursion...
This is the 5th in Virgin Books short-lived series of Judge Dredd novels and the 2nd from Dave Stone. In his previous novel 'Deathmasques' much fun was had by exploring the culture clash between Dredd and Armitage, but the storyline in 'The Medusa Seed' is curiously exploded - we are introduced to both characters from the beginning but it is not till the novel is three-quaters over that Armitage travels to Mega-City One, and even then he only shares a couple of inconsequential scenes with Dredd. Both Armitage and Dredd ultimately seem rather cut-off from the main storyline as they explore their own subplots, while it's left to Psi Judge Karyn to actually deal with the threat of the Medusa, and Karyn herself seems entirely slaved to a pre-ordained destiny, and as such the novel never really gells into a satistying cohesive whole.
There is still plenty of fun to be had along the way however, and 'The Medusa Seed' is chock full of diversionary adventure, including the bizarre sight of 1920's serial killer Albert Fish being sent through time to Mega City One. Stone also keeps the novel running smoothly with the flowing prose, though it must be admitted that the bouts of ultra-violent stream of consciousness/cut-up writing that were so popular at the time with John Smith and other 2000AD authors make this very much a novel of it's time, and the Lovecraftian entity attempting to break into our reality is another cliche that was just as popular with the authors on Virgin's Doctor Who novels of the time.
With the character of Karyn slaved to the pre-ordained plot and Dredd and Armitage irrelavent to the outcome of events 'The Medusa Seed' is ultimately less than the sum of it's parts, but while it lasts there is still plenty of enjoyable action to be found along the way. Not as satisfying as 'Deathmasques', but a fairly decent Dredd novel.
This is the 5th in Virgin Books short-lived series of Judge Dredd novels and the 2nd from Dave Stone. In his previous novel 'Deathmasques' much fun was had by exploring the culture clash between Dredd and Armitage, but the storyline in 'The Medusa Seed' is curiously exploded - we are introduced to both characters from the beginning but it is not till the novel is three-quaters over that Armitage travels to Mega-City One, and even then he only shares a couple of inconsequential scenes with Dredd. Both Armitage and Dredd ultimately seem rather cut-off from the main storyline as they explore their own subplots, while it's left to Psi Judge Karyn to actually deal with the threat of the Medusa, and Karyn herself seems entirely slaved to a pre-ordained destiny, and as such the novel never really gells into a satistying cohesive whole.
There is still plenty of fun to be had along the way however, and 'The Medusa Seed' is chock full of diversionary adventure, including the bizarre sight of 1920's serial killer Albert Fish being sent through time to Mega City One. Stone also keeps the novel running smoothly with the flowing prose, though it must be admitted that the bouts of ultra-violent stream of consciousness/cut-up writing that were so popular at the time with John Smith and other 2000AD authors make this very much a novel of it's time, and the Lovecraftian entity attempting to break into our reality is another cliche that was just as popular with the authors on Virgin's Doctor Who novels of the time.
With the character of Karyn slaved to the pre-ordained plot and Dredd and Armitage irrelavent to the outcome of events 'The Medusa Seed' is ultimately less than the sum of it's parts, but while it lasts there is still plenty of enjoyable action to be found along the way. Not as satisfying as 'Deathmasques', but a fairly decent Dredd novel.
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