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Here are the first two novels of the cult series Red Dwarf in one volume – Red Dwarf and Better Than Life – plus the first draft of the original TV pilot script. It all when Dave Lister is celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London, and somehow ends up three million years from Earth, marooned in the wrong dimension of the wrong reality, and down to his last two cigarettes. Together with a dead man, a senile computer, a deranged sanitation mechanoid with an overactive guilt chip and the best-dressed entity in all six known universes, the last remaining member of the human race begins his epic journey home.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Unusually I've never been a particular fan of TV Red Dwarf.
The show always seemed to fall into formula latterly, basically they'd leave the ship, discover something engage in some slapstick and head home.
However the books are a different matter - these are the classic two writer books and are much superior to the later Backwards/ Last Human books.
So basically the plot is that a motley crew of a revived human, a hologram of a dead man, a super-evolved cat and a sanitation droid (robot) try to pick their way through an decrepit universe. The comedy is mainly of the Odd Couple type with Rimmer and Lister at each others throats.
The books are highly inventive and very readable, not actually laugh out loud funny for me, but excellent sci-fi comedy.
This is a two book set and well worth buying if you're either a sci-fi or a comedy fan.
The show always seemed to fall into formula latterly, basically they'd leave the ship, discover something engage in some slapstick and head home.
However the books are a different matter - these are the classic two writer books and are much superior to the later Backwards/ Last Human books.
So basically the plot is that a motley crew of a revived human, a hologram of a dead man, a super-evolved cat and a sanitation droid (robot) try to pick their way through an decrepit universe. The comedy is mainly of the Odd Couple type with Rimmer and Lister at each others throats.
The books are highly inventive and very readable, not actually laugh out loud funny for me, but excellent sci-fi comedy.
This is a two book set and well worth buying if you're either a sci-fi or a comedy fan.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
straight from the writers of the hit SCI-FI show Red Dwarf. This book, written by Rob Grant and Doug naylor (Grant Naylor),has to be the perfect additon to any dwarfers' collection.
the majourity of the 1st book 'Infinity welcomes careful drivers' ties up many of the loose ends the early seires' (1-4/5) failed to cover/broadcast such as what ever happend to all those other Cats? where as the 2nd book 'Better than life' continues the journey of Lister and co In the literacy world as well as tieing up someof the issues in the Later series'(5/6 -8/7) and provideing connections to the other books 'Backwards and 'Last human'.
this is a Fantastic book a must for any Dwarf Fan, like myself,and all the Grant Naylor books are 'un-put-downable...' !! Read it, Read it now! you will not be dissapointed. :D
the majourity of the 1st book 'Infinity welcomes careful drivers' ties up many of the loose ends the early seires' (1-4/5) failed to cover/broadcast such as what ever happend to all those other Cats? where as the 2nd book 'Better than life' continues the journey of Lister and co In the literacy world as well as tieing up someof the issues in the Later series'(5/6 -8/7) and provideing connections to the other books 'Backwards and 'Last human'.
this is a Fantastic book a must for any Dwarf Fan, like myself,and all the Grant Naylor books are 'un-put-downable...' !! Read it, Read it now! you will not be dissapointed. :D
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I wanted to read the Red Dwarf books, and I hoped they'd be a funny as the tv series. I was wrong, they were even funnier. Every page is fantastic, well written and extremely humourous. I read it in under 2 days, becuase you left on a cliffhanger on every chapter end. Its got one of the best endings i've ever read and I won't spoil it for you, to find out what happens, read it, you won't be dissapointed.
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A pleasure to read - SF at its best and funniest
It builds the TV series and gives it depth and context. There are several science fiction flights of fancy - hopping cars, garbage world - that fit into a realistic universe which... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. M. Jones
Brill
As a fan of Red Dwarf, I loved it, completly different from TV series, well worth buying. Have read again and again.
Published 8 months ago by COMBATCLERK
7 years on I am still banned from taking it on holiday
This is possibly the funniest book I have ever read!
As per the title I am banned from taking it on holiday as I can open the book anywhere and be laughing out loud in... Read more
As per the title I am banned from taking it on holiday as I can open the book anywhere and be laughing out loud in... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Steve Armstrong
If i could give 6 stars I would
Absolutely fantastic Sci-fi, I'm a massive fan of the series but this book took all of the comedy, interesting ideas and hilarious characters of the series and somehow turned them... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Chris R
Loved It!
Having watched all the shows I bought the book. I would say I was pleasantly surpried but I wasn't. I expected the book to be even better and was not disappointed. Read more
Published 18 months ago by J. Cook
Brilliant!
Having been a fan of the TV series for a very long time, I finally bought and read these novels. A perfect book for any Dwarfer, it is laugh out loud funny and expands the TV... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Sarah
Ship wrecked and comatosed
Very good story(s) (from what I have read) I thnk it helps if you are familiar with the characters from the tv series
Published on 5 May 2010 by flying coffin
The funniest book
I first read this in the mid 90's, it was then and still is now the funniest book I have ever read. By the third page I was in tears and pain with laughter. It is soooo funny. Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2009 by edzshed
Fantastic
Fantastic book and a brilliant addition for fans of the TV series. Humour is sharp as always and the storyline gripping and effective. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2009 by Mr. R. Suggett
Dwarfing Heaven
If you have ever seen, and enjoyed, the surreal and cult classic Red Dwarf, this book is a must. The insane situations that the Lister, Rimmer, Cat, Holly (and later Kryten) get up... Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2006 by Adam N. Parker
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