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John Caliber

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The Streets Of Mega-City One
« on: 30 August, 2010, 09:04:08 PM »
Sixteen months in the making, I've finally completed a massive, multi-volume gazetteer to all the locations of the 22nd century's toughest city MEGA-CITY ONE thus far visited in all the official Judge Dredd/Dreddworld media.

THE STREETS OF MEGA-CITY ONE (Volume One)
http://www.johncaliber.com

Hope you all enjoy it and feel free to contribute (also, check out the interview explaining what the project's all about).

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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #1 on: 30 August, 2010, 09:14:05 PM »
Some drokkin' good work there John, I am well impressed!
Perhaps you should be in charge of these types of books for Rebellion and at least they will be comprehensive and well laid out!

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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #2 on: 30 August, 2010, 09:37:36 PM »
Welcome back John, hope this means your health is on the up, and... Wow!
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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #3 on: 30 August, 2010, 09:48:05 PM »
6 months?! Looks like 6 years work there fella - kudos!
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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #4 on: 30 August, 2010, 10:00:14 PM »
Wow!

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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #5 on: 30 August, 2010, 10:20:53 PM »
Welcome back John, hope this means your health is on the up, and... Wow!

It's been touch and go for a few years (and nine weeks in hospital is rough--nearly missed Doctor Who!), but I seem to have accidentally combined the right brain nutrients all self-medicated) to counteract my oppressive chronic fatigue. I managed to get around 30 hours of writing done over the past 72 hours. I've not been so efficient since the early 1990s when I used to write/illustrate Star Wars fanzines.
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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #6 on: 30 August, 2010, 10:38:47 PM »
Fantastic!

I appreciate the care and time that has gone into this, and will be reading every word.

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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #7 on: 31 August, 2010, 07:13:08 AM »
John, that's absolutely brilliant!

If the powers-that-be have any sense, they should contact you and have this printed as the next volume in the Mega City Archives series, then get you onto the next topic!

I don't know whether to cry in despair or laugh at the irony that your effort, which is at a superficial level based on something as unexciting as the MC1 street directory, absolutely creams the MC1 archives in look and content, and they were based on more meatier topics revolving around people and events!

If Rebellion/Mongoose are truly serious about producing an encyclopaedic reference work, this is the way they should go.

I would certainly pay to have this kind of reference properly produced.

(Oh, and a full colour hardback book of covers, whilst your at it, oh Powers-that-be!)

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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #8 on: 31 August, 2010, 09:59:18 AM »
There are initially a couple of subjects I'd appreciate keen Dreddheads proofing for me: the Chronology of Chief Judges and Council Of Five members (in the GRAND HALL OF JUSTICE entry), and also the succession of City Mayors (in the CITY HALL profile).

Additions to Volume 1/A will include roadway and street-type names; they are all scattered throughout the pages, but require their own entries to help tidy it up a bit.

I've taken small liberties when modifying cityblock names, for example adding Christian names to some (when I hypothesised it was very likely they matched the historical figure the writers were relating to), replacing some informal names with their formal counterparts, and consolidating come entries when it appeared logical they existed in the same vicinity (attaching block plazas to cityblocks with the same names, etc, the theory that they might be adjoined).
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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #9 on: 31 August, 2010, 10:14:04 AM »
That is really quite staggering and exactly the type of thing I wish the Mega City Archives had been as others have mentioned. If they'd had this quality of content I'd have snapped them up, as it was I gave them a pass.


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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #10 on: 31 August, 2010, 10:54:46 AM »
That is an extraordinary piece of work, John. Absolutely brilliant and better laid out than many allegedly professional books. Well done.

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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #11 on: 31 August, 2010, 11:05:32 AM »
I welcome feedback from any Dredd authors who would like to make corrections to my analysis of their creations, who can 'set me right'. The more accurate SoMC1 can be, the better utility it serve as a writer's reference.

There will eventually be two parallel lines of books. The 'primary' features SoMC1, Dreddworld Atlas and Dredd In Space, which between them cover EVERYTHING to to with Dredd. They are general reference books.

The secondary are heavily-illustrated (non-profit) role-playing books, which use the primary as their foundation and then--with respect to the original sources--extrapolate and expand upon (for example, I can only create a 'working' map of Mega-City One by taking quite a few creative liberties, since the official material is burdened with conflicts of geography). By 'RPG', I must elaborate that they are 'world-building' in nature, but have no traditional RPG elements (statistics, etc) as I personally detest what I consider an entirely unnecessary level of bureaucracy that bogs the fun down in maths. I appreciate that the RPG books will probably appeal to a much smaller audience, but by having to compile such massive amounts of official data in order to facilitate the RPGs, I happily had in my possession material capable of entertaining/educating a much larger readership.
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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #12 on: 31 August, 2010, 11:06:59 AM »
That is an extraordinary piece of work, John. Absolutely brilliant and better laid out than many allegedly professional books. Well done.

Thank you all very much!
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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #13 on: 31 August, 2010, 01:12:12 PM »
Woah... Can't wait to sit and devour this! Congratulations John.

I did a very brief chronology of Chief Judges on my blog if it'll help any:
http://2000adcovers.blogspot.com/2010/06/every-now-and-then-cover-comes-along.html

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Re: The Streets Of Mega-City One
« Reply #14 on: 31 August, 2010, 01:35:34 PM »
This is what I have:

Eustace T Fargo (2031-51; d.2128)
Hollins Solomon (2051-57)
Clarence Goodman (2057-01; d.01)
Cal (2101; d.01)
Griffin (2101-04; d.04)
Hilda McGruder (2104-08)
Thomas Silver (2108-13; d.13)
Hilda McGruder (reinstated 2113-16; d.18)
Hadrian Volt (2116-21; d.21)
Barbara Hershey (2121-31)
Dan Francisco (2131-32)
Martin Sinfield (2132)
Francisco (reinstated 32-)
Caliber (best of them all)
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