Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
The Red Dwarf series, Book 1
Grant Naylor
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Fiction, Humor/Media Tie-In/Sci-Fi
Themes: Felines, Post-Apocalypse, Robots, Space Stories, Time Travel
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Description
Through a series of misfortunes compounded by poor decision-making skills, Liverpudlian loser David Lister winds up as the last human being alive, three
million years after he left Earth aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf. His only companions are: a holographic simulation of his dead supervisor and
bunkmate, the neurotic mess of a man called Arnold Rimmer; a humanoid lifeform who evolved from Lister's pregnant cat, known only as Cat; Holly, the eccentric
shipboard computer who isn't quite functioning at peak intellectual capacity after prolonged isolation; and the cleanliness-obsessed mechanoid Kryten, rescued
from the wreckage of the Nova 5. Together, they navigate all manner of mishap and mayhem, all while Dave Lister secretly longs for a return trip to
Earth... whatever it may hold for him.
Based on the British sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf.
Review
Grant Naylor is actually a compilation of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, the show's creators. This book covers events in the series in a slightly different order, filling in time in between episodes and showing more of what happened before the series started. According to the authors, this is what they would've wanted to do, if they had a chance to go back in time and redo the show from Day 1. Some of it I would've liked to have seen, and some I think was better like it was when they filmed it. It's fun, but it drags in parts, and some of the material just plain worked better on TV. (How well this book will go over with someone unfamilliar with the BBC show, I cannot say, since I was already a fan when I bought it.)