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The Medusa Seed
AuthorDave Stone
Cover artistSean Phillips
SeriesJudge Dredd
GenreScience fiction
Set in 2116
PublisherVirgin Books
Publication date
January 1994
Pages256
ISBN0-352-32895-9
Preceded byCursed Earth Asylum 
Followed byDread Dominion 

The Medusa Seed (1994) is an original novel written by Dave Stone and based on the long-running British science fiction comic strip Judge Dredd. It is Stone's second Judge Dredd novel, and again features the character Detective-Judge Armitage, who appeared in Stone's first such novel, Deathmasques.

Synopsis

Armitage and his assistant Judge Steel come to Mega-City One to pursue a serial murderer – Albert Fish, who has escaped from the electric chair in 1936 and travelled to the 22nd century – 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 and are therefore not mutations created by the ensuing radiation[1]). Psis are said to be the product of illegal medical experiments on children during the 20th century by the US National Security Agency.[2]

References

  1. ^ Judge Dredd: Origins episode 11, 2000 AD prog 1515
  2. ^ Pages 99-105

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