The Last Human - Doug Naylor

...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 ...
...writing flows very well and the structure of the book keeps the read interesting. Divided into three parts, at the beginning of each section there's some black and white artwork, which I thought was a nice touch. I've been unable to find out who drew this images, but regardless I thought they're a nice touch, not found in other Red Dwarf books. The book itself is written as a self-contained entity, so prior knowledge of the Red Dwarf universe isn't ...

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Review of The Last Human - Doug Naylor

Last Human is one of the Best Dwarf novels because it combines areas from the TV show more subtly then the previous two novels and has a lot of extra stuff thrown in. For the first time it actually reads like a proper novel. It injects a new flavour into the boyz from the dwarf. The characters really feel like there on screen counterparts particulaly rimmer and lister, cat and kryten being used more for laughs and plot points. However this really ...

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Review of The Last Human - Doug Naylor

...that it was one of the funniest books I have read in a long time. I had already read both of Rob Grants books which are colony and backwards, and I found them both hysterical, so I decided to see if Doug Naylors contribution was of the same calibre, and I certainly was not disappointed. Below is a brief description of the story: - Dave Lister - the last human. The future of the species is in the hands of one man. And all he has to help him are ...
...mail order catalogue Somewhere along the line, he'd made a major mistake. Why else would he find himself on a prison ship bound for Cyberia, the most inhospitable penal colony in Deep Space -- sentenced to eighteen years Hard Thought. This book may not be to every reader's taste, but fans of Red Dwarf and sci-fi novels will not be disappointed. There are so many sub-plots that eventually role into one brilliant ending, For example when the president ...

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Review of The Last Human - Doug Naylor

In a similar way to the other three novels, this one uses ideas from the series. The story moves back and forth between Lister's incarceration in an inter-galactic prison and how he wound up there. The whole prison part is wrapped up a little too quickly and it moves on to a part about a point in the universe called the "omni-zone" and a planet with a thing called "The Rage" which kills people. This novel doesn't really follow directly on from the ...
...end of the previous novel, Cat and Lister did a dimension jump however the additon of Kristine Kockanski is unexplained and like in the TV series, ruins the chemistry between the men. I wasn't really all that satisfied with the book. It was a real let down after reading the other three. I suppose the ending is there to wrap up the whole story of getting back to Earth but I still feel a little cheated. Although I was happy to see the return of Rimmers ...

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Review of The Last Human - Doug Naylor