Unfortunately, their new life back on Earth is not real it is just a simulation of their innermost thoughts and desires. Lister is living in the idyllic town of Bedford Falls and Rimmer, now the third richest man in the world, has everything he has ever dreamed of (almost).
The crew of the Jupiter Mining Corporation Vessel Red Dwarf have finally returned to Earth, using the duality drive on board the Nova 5. Kryten: “My God! I was only away two minutes!” It’s still going on, and it’s an emergency.” – Holly. “I am not spending the rest of my life with a man who keeps his underpants on coat hangers.” – Lister on his impending life with Rimmer. That’s how surprised the rubber plant was.’ – p26 If the rubber plant could have spoken, it wouldn’t have said anything. Rimmer, a creature that evolved from his pet cat and Kryten, a deranged sanitation mechanoid. His only companions: Holly the senile disembodied head of the ships computer system, a hologram simulation of his dead bunkmate Arnold J. Three million years later, third technician David Lister eventually re-emerges from stasis to find himself the last remaining member of the human race. Getting completely black out drunk, he wakes up sometime later in a McDonald’s restaurant on the Saturnian Satellite of Mimas, 793 million miles away.Īfter spending six months trying and failing to save up enough money for the shuttle fare required in order to leave Mimas and return home, Dave decides to join the Jupiter Mining Corporation and get appointed to an Earth bound ship, his destination Red Dwarf.Īfter just seven months almost the entire crew onboard Red Dwarf is wiped out in a radiation leak. While out celebrating his 24 th birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London with his friends, something goes terribly wrong for David Lister.
Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers The two geniuses responsible for creating the Red Dwarf sitcom for the BBC, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, come together once again to co-write these two hilarious sci-fi novels. The Red Dwarf Omnibus comprises the first two Red Dwarf novels by Grant Naylor: Red Dwarf and Better Than Life, all in one volume. Since today is Blue Monday I thought that this weeks’ book review should be something light-hearted and full of comedy so… check out the Red Dwarf Omnibus.
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