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The Hundredfold Problem (Paperback)

by John Grant (Author)
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  • Paperback: 344 pages
  • Publisher: BeWrite Books (1 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904224490
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904224495
  • Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,316,296 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The story begins several million years ago, when sentient machines from an alien civilization build a Dyson Sphere around the sun's Red Dwarf companion star (which is why we’ve never seen it) and seed the Sphere with Neanderthals . . .

Or maybe it begins in the future, after terrestrial humanity has discovered the Sphere (now called the Big Dunkin Donut), colonized it, and enslaved the natives.

Whatever … the Donut is in peril.

Atheist fundamentalist preachers – Rev Rick "The Man" Hamfist and Rev Bo "No Messin" Fingers – inspired by dastardly Dennis the Complete Bloody Sadist, are waging an evangelical war there with the aim of destroying the local, very real, goddess LoChi.

Using a matter transmitter, Earth sends holochips of two plucky adventurers to sort this out: heavy-weapons-toting xeno-anthropologist and scantily clad babe Petula McTavish; and by-the-rules supercop Dave Knuckle. But Knuckle's holochip is accidentally shattered on arrival into one hundred fragments, which are reconstituted to form one hundred lethally diverse partial versions of the supercop.

McTavish now has a hundredfold problem to solve. Actually a one-hundred-and-one-fold problem, but that wouldn't have made as good a title.

And that's before she falls in love . . .

The Hundredfold Problem is that rarest of things – a gloriously funny romp, populated by outrageous, larger-than-life characters, that's also an extremely imaginative, challenging sf novel.


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3.0 out of 5 stars Not 100 percent..., 8 Aug 2007
By dogbarkssome (England) - See all my reviews
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This 7th in Virgin Books short-lived range of Judge Dredd novels (and kudos to them for at least avoiding the obvious 'HunDreddFold' title pun for once) sees Judge Dredd being sent offworld to a recently rediscovered Earth colony, only to find himself split into 100 different Dredds by errors in the transmatting process...

'The Hundredfold Problem' initially feels refreshing different, as author John Grant takes us away from the familiar setting of Mega-City One to the new creation of the 'Big Dunkin Donut', a Dyson sphere created by artificial intelligences inhabited by distant relatives of mankind. Unfortuntately however Grant then takes things too far, as thanks to being divided into 100 fragments Judge Dredd himself (in any recognisable form) is virtually absent from the majority of the novel.

There is still some interest to be found in the novel, with musings on the the dependance of Gods on faith, and echoes of high concept science fiction from the likes of Iain M Banks (the Dyson sphere and machine intelligences of The Culture novels) and Arthur C Clarke (the aliens aiding evolution aspects of '2001: A Space Odyssey') but it has to be said that a lot of the novel consists of a woman wearing a skimpy outfit (for reasons never explained) running around shooting things with a ridiculously powerful gun, and the finale when Dredd confront's the novels 'bad guy' is frankly a massive let down.

Some pleasantly oddball (if not outright crazy) characters in the best Judge Dredd tradition keep 'The Hundredfold Problem' readable, and its attempt to mix high concept science fiction with more familiar comicbook-style action adventure is admirable, but it's ulimately not a particularly sucessful experiment. 'The Hundredfold Problem' isn't a bad book, but it is sadly the least enjoyable read in Virgin's Judge Dredd range.
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