Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers / Better Than Life - Grant Naylor

I must have read this book four or five times now. The Red Dwarf Omnibus consists of the first two Red Dwarf novels, co-penned by the show's writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. As in the tv series, the books follow the adventures of Dave Lister, the last human being alive who finds himself 3 million years in the future billions of light years from Earth on a mining ship the size of a city, his only companions being Holly, the ship's senile computer, Rimmer, a hologramatic recreation of his former bunkmate resurrected to keep Lister sane, the Cat, a vain humanoid creature that evolved from Lister's pregnant cat in the 3 million years that Lister was in stasis (Rimmer ...  Read the complete review

Red Dwarf - Infinity welcomes careful drivers ~Red what?~ Red Dwarf was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor for BBC Television, it was a series starring Craig Charles. They also wrote several books to go along with the series. To date there have been 9 series of Red Dwarf and the series has been very popular ~What is it about?~ Red Dwarf is a comedy about the last human alive, Dave Lister who was put into suspended animation and revived 3 million years later and his life aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf, with only a hologram of his dead crewmate, a senile computer and a creature who evolved from his cat as company. ~Infinity ...  Read the complete review

I was introduced to Red Dwarf through the TV series when I was a wee small child. I think maybe some of the humour was lost on me then but as I grew up with it I started to understand more of them. I somehow now live with someone who doesnt like Red Dwarf (???) but I have a good friend who does. He however told me that the books are much better than the TV programme. To be honest I may have outgrown the TV series or it may have been when it became more Americanised (if thats a word!) but I am now inclined to agree with him. This book is easily recognisable as Red Dwarf (for thoses who have watched the TV series of course!). I instantly recognised ...  Read the complete review

Other than to introduce the conept of a living dead man, it mystifies me as to why Grant Naylor chose to begin this book(s) with a story about a character who never appears again in the story. Other than that, these book(s) are BRILLIANT. I'm something of a Red Dwarf fanatic (having watched all 8 series at least 8 times) and was delighted to receive these books as a gift. When I was given them, they were in two separate volumes - I see nowadays the publishers have stuck the two together. A wise choice. "Better Than Life" follows on (fairly) well from where "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers" left off. But what's it all about? ...  Read the complete review

'Red Dwarf', for those of you don't know, is a situation comedy set in space and the most successful television programme (viewers wise) that BBC2 has ever shown. However, the creators of the series, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, felt that the show didn't do justice to their vision and decided to write a series of novels based around the television series. 'The Red Dwarf Omnibus' is the first and second of the four novel series - 'Red Dwarf' (also known as 'Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers') and 'Better Than Life' - bundled together. The premise is this: Dave Lister, a slob from the twenty-fourth century, ushers in ...  Read the complete review