''The Medusa Seed'' (1994) is an original novel written by

Dave Stone Dave Stone (born 12 June 1964) is a British science fiction writer. Biography Stone has written many spin off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and '' Judge Dredd''. Stone also contributed a number of c ...

and based on the long-running British

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

comic strip ''

Judge Dredd Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of '' 2000 AD'' (1977), which is a British weekly anthology comic. He is the magazine's longest-running ...

''. It is Stone's second ''Judge Dredd'' novel, and again features the character

Detective-Judge Armitage ''Armitage'' is a science fiction series appearing in the British comic anthology the '' Judge Dredd Megazine'', created by Dave Stone and Sean Phillips in 1991. The protagonist is a Detective-Judge in Brit-Cit, a British mega-city in the unive ...

, who appeared in Stone's first such novel, '' Deathmasques''.

Synopsis

Armitage and his assistant Judge Steel come to

Mega-City One Mega-City One is a fictional city that features in the ''Judge Dredd'' comic book series and related media. A post-nuclear megalopolis covering much of what is now the Eastern United States and some of Canada, the city's exact geography depends ...

to pursue a murderer, under the watchful eye of Judge Dredd. When their quarry escapes through time back to the 1930s, Dredd and Steel must follow him there. Meanwhile, Armitage is lost in the Undercity.

Continuity

''The Medusa Seed'' includes the only explanation in any ''Judge Dredd'' story of the origins of people with psionic abilities, such as members of Justice Department's Psi Division (since "psis" existed before the

Atomic Wars Atomic may refer to: * Of or relating to the atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties * Atomic physics, the study of the atom * Atomic Age, also known as the "Atomic Era" * Atomic scale, distances comp ...

and are therefore not mutations created by the ensuing radiation). Psis are said to be the product of illegal medical experiments on children during the 20th century by the US National Security Agency.Pages 99-105

References

External links

The Medusa Seed
at the '' 2000 AD'' website. Novels by Dave Stone Judge Dredd novels 1994 British novels Novels set in the 22nd century Virgin Books books {{UK-comics-stub