... 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 ... Read review
Celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London Lister ... more
ended up three million years from Earth marooned in the wrong plane of the wrong dimension of the wrong reality and down to his last two cigarettes. Accompanied...
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Advantages: Funny, well written, engaging, varied, intelligent Disadvantages: None
...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 ... ...expressing delusions of grandeour. The Red Dwarf Omnibus also comes with the script of Dave Hollister: Space Cadet- the radio show upon which the books and tv series were based, and is an absolutely essential read for fans of comedy and scifi in general, and Douglas Adams in particular.
Summary: A must for Red Dwarf and Douglas Adams fans ... more
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 accidentally caused a nuclear explosion on the ship that killed everyone but the incarcerated Dave) and Kryten, a deranged service mechanoid that the crew pick up from a shipwreck on a barren moon.
Unsurprisingly, the style of the writing bears much similarity to that of the TV Show's scripts, with the same sense of unmistakably British humour present throughout, and the book is also very clearly influenced by Douglas Adams' 'HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy' in the playful way that it messes about with the laws of space and time. The book essentially embellishes and expands upon the various TV show scripts, weaving them together into a coherent narrative that makes for a hugely exciting and absorbing read. Plotlines from the episodes Better Than Life, Backwards, Future Echoes Polymorph and many others work their way into the story, and the character development is excellent, particularly regarding Rimmer, who is more fleshed out as a unpleasant, pathetic but ultimately likable character even more than in the tv show. Talkie Toaster, the bread-obsessed kitchen appliance from series 4 is far more prominent in the book than the show, becoming a character in its own right rather than the one-off one dimensional character that he was in the TV series.
The book also reminds of Iain M Banks' early sci-fi novel 'Consider Philebas' in places, with its rag-tag bunch of human and machine space oddities flying around space and trying to get themselves out of ridiculous amounts of trouble. Indeed Talkie Toaster's character is hugely similar to Consider Philebas' character Unaha-Closp- an irritating little drone that floats about getting on everybody's nerves whilst mocking the rest of the crew and expressing delusions of grandeour. The Red Dwarf Omnibus also comes with the script of Dave Hollister: Space Cadet- the radio show upon which the books and tv series were based, and is an absolutely essential read for fans of comedy and scifi in general, and Douglas Adams in particular.
Summary: A must for Red Dwarf and Douglas Adams fans
Advantages: Very funny and incredibly readable. Cheaper than buying each book separately Disadvantages: Goes over a lot of the television material.
This book was written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor and was originally two books (RedDwarf and Better Than Life); it was an extension of the extremely successful television series RedDwarf. Although the series was very funny and enjoyable it did lack the history needed to make it fantastic. This book takes the series and throws more light on the characters and the situations they find themselves in.
Dave Lister is human, but only just some would argue, he is in-fact a complete and utter slob, whose idea of getting dressed up involves turning his underpants inside out, using car spray to cover the hole in his trousers, and wearing the t-shirt with only two curry stains! On his 25th birthday he decides to go on a Monopoly board pub-crawl with his friends, as a result of which he is now stranded on the Spanish owned satellite of Mimas ...
Advantages: Its Red Dwarf and surely thats the point! Disadvantages: None
Coming from a humble RedDwarf fanatic these two first books are the best in the series and in this omnibus edition , it makes them huge value for money too.
RedDwarf is the first book in the series and starts even before Lister joined up on RedDwarf(something the TV series never covered) and follows right through to the end of the second novel, Better than Life. Obviously I'm not going to reveal what happens at the end of these magnificantly crafted comic masterpices, so I'll just leave you to buy it,read it and treasure it. ...
Advantages: Humouros, even if u dont usually read books Disadvantages: NOTHING
I dont usually read books but I started this as an exception because I loved the RedDwarf series on TV and thought they were really funny. I passed my brother one day who was reading the book and he was laughing out loud. Strange I thought but maybe it is actually quite funny. But how could a book be funny?? I thought. Read this and youll see how. The book is written so perfectly it makes u laugh constantly.
I love this book and all that is to do with it. It has an excellent story line and has everything in the right place with many twists and comedic moments.
Buy it, I beg you. ...
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EAN
9780140174663
Type
Fiction
Genre
Science Fiction
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Title
Red Dwarf Omnibus
Author
Grant Naylor
ISBN
0140174664
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Celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London Lister ended up three million years from Earth marooned in the wrong plane of the wrong dimension of the wrong reality and down to his last two cigarettes. Accompanied by 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. En route he'll break the Light Barrier meet God shoot pool with planets and battle emotion-stealing chameleonic mutant parasites. The journey will perhaps unsurprisingly takes him two lifetimes. This omnibus edition includes the two bestselling novels Red Dwarf" and "Better than Life" and the first draft of the TV pilot script."
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