Last Human - Doug Naylor

'The Last Human' was written by Red Dwarf's co-creator, Doug Naylor. Rob Grant had decided he wished to write a Red Dwarf novel by himself and Doug quickly decided afterwards he would do the same. 'The Last Human' is the result. 'The Last Human' follows Dave Lister and the rest of the Dwarf crew as they try and navigate their way back into their own universe having picked up Lister and Kochanski from the Backwards reality. Having made a mistake with the navi-calcs, the crew find themselves to have passed through the omni-zone, (the point in spacetime where alternate Universes meet) and into the wrong reality, where they find another version of their ship, ...  Read the complete review

Lister had died three million years from home on a garbage planet populated by mutant cockroaches. His aged body was retrieved by his crewmates – a robot, a cat and another dead man – and sent to a backwards universe to begin ageing young again. But if you thought that was confusing, try grasping the dual chronology of the Red Dwarf novels. Following their long-time partnership as writers of television (most notably ‘Red Dwarf’) and novels (most notably ‘Red Dwarf’), the gestalt entity calling itself Grant Naylor separated, and Rob Grant and Doug Naylor went their separate ways. Rob effectively distanced himself from the successful space sitcom he had ...  Read the complete review

An offshoot book from the Red dwarf TV series. It is written by only one of the original partnership. This is a bit confusing as Rob Grant has also written a book which covers the same point in time but has a completely different story. Never mind just think alternate Universes or something. This is about how Lister and the gang find another starbug in another dimension. Everyone is dead except Lister who has been taken prisoner and put in a virtual prison which manifests your worse case scenario. Our gang decide to go and rescue the other Lister. This turns out to be a mistake but I won’t spoil it anymore. This has some funny parts in and captures the spirit of ...  Read the complete review