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Red Dwarf Books - Every
Red Dwarf book I know off
RED DWARF: INFINITY WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS
by Grant Naylor
ISBN 0-14-012437-3
Penguin, 1989
UK £4.99
Also Available as an Audio tape
THE FULL STORY
When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk.
"After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly-board pub
crawl around London, he came to in a burger bar on one of Saturn's
moon(Titan), wearing a ladies pink crimplene hat, a pair of yellow
fishing waders, with no money and a passport in the name of 'Emily
Berkenstein'.
Joining the Space Corps seemed a good idea. Red Dwarf,
a gigantic red trash can that doubled as a mining ship, was bound
for Earth. It never made it, leaving Lister as the last remaining
human, three million years from Earth, with only a dead man,
a senile computer and a highly evolved cat for company.
They begin their journey home. On the way they'll break the
Light Barrier. They'll meet Einstein, Archimedes, God and Norman
Wisdom.... and discover an alternative plane of reality.
IWCD is like all the books, well written, very funny
sometimes crazy in a way that only Red Dwarf is.
I can not recommend this enough, other than to say ""READ NOW""I
can't decide which book is best out of all of them, but I'm half way though
re-reading IWCD and I'm still impressed and I have read it 3 times already
since buying it.
RED DWARF: BETTER THAN LIFE
by Grant Naylor
ISBN 0-14-012438-1
Penguin, 1990
UK £4.99
Also Available as an Audio tape
"LISTER IS LOST"
"Three Million years from Earth he's marooned in a world
created by his own psyche. For Lister it's the most dangerous
place he could possibly be because he is completely happy.
Rimmer has a problem too. He's dead. But that's not the problem.
Rimmer's problem is he's trapped in a landscape created by his
own subconscious. And Rimmer's subconscious doesn't like him
one little bit.
Together with Cat, the-best dressed entity in all six know
universes, and Kryten, a sanitation Mechanoid with a missing
sanity chip, they are trapped in the ultimate computer game:
Better Than Life. The zenith of computer game technology, BTL
transports you directly to a perfect world of your imagination,
a world where you can enjoy fabulous wealth and unmitigated success.
It's the ideal game with only one drawback - it's so good,
it will kill you" |
RED DWARF: LAST HUMAN
by Doug Naylor
ISBN 0-67-085255-4
Penguin, 1995
UK £4.99
Also Available as an Audio tape
Returning from a excursion to the Fourth Universe,
the Red Dwarf crew stumble upon across a spaceship identical to
their own.
It soon transpires that Rimmer made a minute error in the sub
light-speed drive calculations - forgetting to carry a two - and
as a consequence the Dwarfers have accidentally harnessed super
string theory, punched a hole in the space time continuum and
arrived in a parallel reality.
When the crew board the ship to investigate they discover
their own dead bodies - all, that is, except for Lister's.
Who has killed them and why?
The Last Human: the future of the species is in the
hands of one man. And all he has to help are his wits, his cunning
and a two page girdle section from a mail-order catalogue.
Last Human is the third of the hugely successful Red
Dwarf novels based on the award winning BBC series.
RED DWARF: BACKWARDS
by Rob Grant
ISBN 0-670-84574-4 (Hardback) ISBN 0140171509 (paperback)
UK £4.99 (Paperback)
Also Available as an Audio tape
Dave Lister has finally found his way back to planet
Earth. Which is good.
What's bad is that time isn't running in quite the
right direction. And if he doesn't get off the planet soon, he's
going to have to go through puberty again. Backwards.
Still, his crew mates have come to rescue him. Which
is good.
What's bad is that they consist of a robot with a hyperactive
guilt chip, a creature who evolved from cats, and a dead man.
And if they fail, Lister will carry on growing younger until he
becomes a baby, then an embryo... And finally, He'll meet a very
sticky end indeed.
Rejoin the trepid band of spare zeroes from Red
Dwarf and Better Than Life - Lister, Rimmer, Kryten, Holly
and Cat - as they continue their epic journey through frontal-lobe-knotting
realities where none dare venture but the bravest of the brave,
the boldest of the bold or the feeblest of the feeble-minded
Very Good Book (FULL STOP)
I even have the Hardback version which cost me 10 quid, worth
it anyhow.
Other Red Dwarf Books:
THE OFFICIAL RED DWARF COMPANION
by Bruce Dessau
ISBN 1-85286-456-7
Titan, 1992
UK £6.99
Note: Unless they have updated it since 1992 it only covers
Season 1 to 5.
Very useful, mine has been flicked through so
many times, that tape not holds many of the pages in.
RED DWARF OMNIBUS
by Grant Naylor
ISBN 0-14-017466-4
Penguin, 1991
UK £9.99
Note: IWCD and BTL all in one book + The script of Dave
Hollist Space Cadet. (What more could u want?)
RED DWARF PROGRAMME GUIDE
by Chris Howarth and Steve Lyons
ISBN 0-86-369682-1
Virgin, 1995
UK £4.99
"Everything you never wanted to know about the smash mega-series."
An in-depth collection (about 230 pages) of information about
Series 1-6. It includes sections on History, The Characters, The
Programmes, The Index, The Creators (cast and production crew),
and The Spin-offs. The Index, by far the largest section of the
book, is a lexicon of almost everything mentioned to during the
series, from "A to Z of Red Dwarf, The" to "Zoom
function".
RED DWARF -- PRIMORDIAL SOUP: THE
LEAST WORST SCRIPTS
by Grant Naylor
ISBN 0-14-017886-4
Penguin, 1993
UK £4.99
The Scripts to: Polymorph, Marooned, Dimension Jump, Justice,
Back to Reality and Psirens.
All script have the Technical Bits as well.
Red Dwarf: Son of Soup
by Grant Naylor
ISBN 0-14-025363-7
Penguin, 1996
A sequel to Primordial Soup, containing scripts for "Gunmen
of the Apocalypse," "Holoship," "Camille,"
"Backwards," "Kryten," and "Me^2,"
with introductions by Rob Grant.
THE MAN IN THE RUBBER MASK
by Robert Llewellyn
ISBN 0-14-023575-2
Penguin, 1994
Describes Llewellyn's involvement in Red Dwarf from the beginning
of Series 3 through the filming of the American pilots. Plenty
of anecdotes and stories, and lots of trivia. The section on the
American pilots is especially revealing, and gives some plausible
reasons why the whole project fell through.
THE MAKING OF RED DWARF
by Joe Nazzaro
ISBN 0-14-023206-0
Penguin, 1994
Loads of info and pictures from the Making of Gunmen of the
Apocalypse.
Also includes a bit from the script that wasn't used.
RED DWARF QUIZ BOOK
by Nicky Hooks and Sharon Burnett
ISBN 0-14-023662-7
Penguin, 1994
UK £4.99
Test Your Knowledge on Red Dwarf (I can't even answer all of
them and I though I knew a fair bit) Includes everything from
Crosswords to "Who said this?"
Red Dwarf Space Corps Survival Manual
by Paul Alexander
by Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
Heinemann, Nov 1996
UK £7.99
A survival guide for Space Corps officers, written by fictional
Marine Colonel Mike "Mad Dog" O'Hagan (who served with
the Space Corps Special Service Really Really Brave Division).
Has sections on finding food and water, setting traps and snares,
appointing a leader, survival psychology, first aid, and even
surviving death. Includes numerous marginal notes and comments
scribbled by the Lister, Rimmer, Kryten, and the Cat, a survival
questionnaire filled out by each crew member, and a flicker-book
animation (of an arm being amputated) in a corner of the pages.
Pictures from Series 7 appears as snapshots "taped"
into the book. Quite funny, if a little fixated on cannibalism
(or, as Col. O'Hagan prefers to call it, "recipe-based respect
for the dead"). 112 pages.
Red Dwarf Log No. 1996
by Paul Alexander
ISBN 0-434-00370-0
William Heineman Ltd, 1995
A 1996 diary with a few extras. Computerised entries by the
four crew members and Holly are scattered through the pages, along
with recipes, Space Corps book excerpts, and other assorted items.
The Log: A Dwarfer's Guide to Everything
by Craig Charles
ISBN 0-14-026862-6
Penguin 1997
£6.99
Blurb from back cover:
Craig says: I've been playing Lister
for over 10 years and I've often thought: what would it be like
to be the last human is the universe? What in space would I do?'
Write something for posterity, perhaps? An attempt to chronicle
the triumphs and failures of the human race during its entire
turbulent history?
A last word from the Final Caretaker of humankind?
In other words, A DWARFEER'S GUIDE TO EVERYTHING?
- Read this book and learn:
- to avoid Not-a-Cats
- never to keep anything radioactive in your pants
- not to place your head inside anything with 'Head Remover'
written on it
- a lot about food, and how to do it
Containing Craig Charles's tips
on how to survive in the hostile Universe that is Life.
Craig's footnote: Change is inevitable (so don't forget
to check yours when you buy this book).
I even have a signed copy :)
