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Be Well RED

Advantages: Highly Entertaining and Very Funny
Disadvantages: Shame there arent more novels based on the series

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the choices you made in life were correct? What if you had turned left at a specific corner instead of right? What if you had accepted that invitation of a date from that boy/girl? Can one decision in yo ...

steelhamster 09.04.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Red Dwarf: Backwards - Rob Grant

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A good read if you like the series...

Advantages: Funny, clever twists. Clear concise writing. A good slant on the original series
Disadvantages: Relies too strongly on knowledge of the TV series. Difficult and inexplicable for non-viewers

Picking up from the end of "Better Than Life":The Cat, Rimmer, and Kryten go at the agreed time to pick up Lister from the backwards reality he was placed in so that he would get back to his normal age. Lister unfortunately has spent the last eight years ...

scruffygit 12.07.2000 · Read full review
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A must for all Dwarfers and Smegheads

Advantages: Well plotted, hilarious, ties in well with the series
Disadvantages: Likely to baffle non-fans

...Rob Grant is the co-creator of Red Dwarf along with Doug Naylor, with the franchise spawning eight seasons of T.V. (so far), novels, a magazine, a possible movie and even - gulp - a hit single. After series six of the popular BBC science-fiction sitcom w ...

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Not the Best Dwarf Novel

Advantages: New Material
Disadvantages: Not Like the Boyz from the dwarf

This book continues where the previous two left off and while they were episodes from the series put together cleverly with some extra stuff thrown in this is almost a completely new novel. It suffers from the fact that it will be too unfamiliar for some ...

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Red Dwarf – Sdrawkcab

Advantages: Very funny
Disadvantages: None

This one must have taken some thinking about. Picture this, although still on earth you happen to be in a parallel universe. No big deal I know, but this parallel universe is one where time actually runs backwards. That’s a different kettle of fish ...

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