Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

Author: Grant Naylor

The English may have the reputation as a pack of whining poms, but they sure blast that stereotype to smithereens with the comedic abilities of their science fiction writers. If you're a fan of Douglas Adam's writing, then you'll love this novel based on the English comedy, Red Dwarf, where the robot Kryten is the stand-out character in an incredibly amusing mob. This best-selling novel by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (hence Grant Naylor) starts an epic piss-take of space opera saga with Dave Lister celebrating his 24th birthday on a London pub crawl, and somehow ending up 3 million years from Earth with only two cigarettes left. He's not even in the right dimension. With Rimmer, the hologram Lister meets on a night out looking for a plasti-droid brothel, Kryten, the deranged sanitation robot with an over active guilt chip, and the vain Cat, they attempt to get back home to Earth with the help of Holly, the ship's genius computer. And we can't forget the toaster that talks back. This English novel is one of the all-time most amusing novels you will ever read, with the funniest, most endearing android you will ever account. The best scenes in this novel are where Lister tries to teach Kryten how to insult humans, and the very essence of being human - how to lie - which culminates in the robot running around the shipping waving a banana screaming that it's an aardvark. Your only complaint about this novel will be that it ends. And there's always the sequel to solve that issue.

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