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''The Hundredfold Problem'' is a science fiction novel written by John Grant. The original version, published by
Virgin Books Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company. History Virgin established its book publishing ar ...
in 1994, was based on the long-running British science fiction 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 c ...
''. 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)

A four-million-year-old
Dyson sphere A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output. The concept is a thought experiment that attempts to explain how a spacefaring civilization would meet ...
has been discovered surrounding a
red dwarf ''Red Dwarf'' is a British science fiction comedy franchise created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave (TV channel), Dave since 2009, gaining a ...
star orbiting the Sun, populated by the descendants of the
Neanderthal Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. While ...
s.
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 ...
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 Teleportation is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. It is a common subject in science fiction literature and in other popular culture. Teleportation is oft ...
to the sphere causes one hundred evil versions of him to be produced.


See also

'' Burning Heart'' 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 co ...
was another ''Judge Dredd'' novel which was rewritten without Dredd, and became a '' Doctor Who'' book in 1997, still published by
Virgin Books Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company. History Virgin established its book publishing ar ...
. However the original version was never published.


External links


Judge Dredd: The Hundredfold Problem
at the '' 2000 AD'' website.
Review of the BeWrite edition
by Stuart Jaffe at
Infinity Plus ''Infinity Plus'' (sometimes stylized as ''infinity plus'' and ''infinityplus'') was a science fiction webzine active from 1997 to 2007,
Judge Dredd novels 1994 British novels 2003 novels Novels set in the 22nd century Virgin Books books {{UK-comics-stub