Mass Market Paperback, 298 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 1992 by ROC.
The first lesson Lister learned about space travel was you should never try it. But Lister didn't have a choice. All he remembered was going on a birthday celebration pub crawl through London. When he came to his senses again, he was living in a locker on one of Saturn's moons, with nothing in his pockets but a passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein.
So he did the only thing he could. Amazed to discover they would actually hire him, he joined the space corps—and found himself aboard Red Dwarf, a spaceship as big as a small city that, six or seven years from now, would get him back to Earth. What Lister couldn't forsee was that he'd inadvertently signed up for a one-way jaunt three million years into the future—a future which would see him the last living member of the human race, with only a hologram …
The first lesson Lister learned about space travel was you should never try it. But Lister didn't have a choice. All he remembered was going on a birthday celebration pub crawl through London. When he came to his senses again, he was living in a locker on one of Saturn's moons, with nothing in his pockets but a passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein.
So he did the only thing he could. Amazed to discover they would actually hire him, he joined the space corps—and found himself aboard Red Dwarf, a spaceship as big as a small city that, six or seven years from now, would get him back to Earth. What Lister couldn't forsee was that he'd inadvertently signed up for a one-way jaunt three million years into the future—a future which would see him the last living member of the human race, with only a hologram crew mate and a highly evolved Cat for company. Of course, that was before the ship broke the light barrier and things began to get really weird...
Always loved this book, as a loose re-interpretation of some episodes from the TV series. Even better narrated by Chris Barrie - who does VERY passable impressions of his co-stars!
Nostalgia may be bumping this book up a little bit, but not much, and I doubt anyone's reading this if they've never seen the TV show.
The audiobook performance by Chris Barrie is incredible. His impressions of the rest of the TV show cast are eerily accurate.
If you've seen the TV show then the story is not going to be new to you. There are some new bits here and there, and some stuff that was a bit too raunchy for TV at the time it aired back then.
Nostalgia may be bumping this book up a little bit, but not much, and I doubt anyone's reading this if they've never seen the TV show.
The audiobook performance by Chris Barrie is incredible. His impressions of the rest of the TV show cast are eerily accurate.
If you've seen the TV show then the story is not going to be new to you. There are some new bits here and there, and some stuff that was a bit too raunchy for TV at the time it aired back then.
Another light listened-to-it-in-a-day book, this one funny. I looked up - it's a book based on a TV series, and it feels a bit like it, I didn't know the end was the end at the time I listened to it. But if you want some miserable people getting into less and less probable adventures, this might do.
Another light listened-to-it-in-a-day book, this one funny. I looked up - it's a book based on a TV series, and it feels a bit like it, I didn't know the end was the end at the time I listened to it. But if you want some miserable people getting into less and less probable adventures, this might do.
I was going to write a review for this book that I last read a few years ago, but I thought sod it, it must be time for a re-read.
This is where it all started, one of the greatest SciFi series ever, a brilliant cast of characters and funny as hell story. I've watched the series so many times now that when reading the books the characters voices come so easily to me. During this reading I kept getting glimpses of Douglas Adams writing, never noticed that previously, but the explanations about space travel and the descriptions of Red Dwarf reminded me of Hitchhikers guide.
There are so many great lines; "They're dead Dave" will have me laughing no matter how many times I hear/read it.
Brilliant comedy SciFi that has gotta be read by everybody.
I was going to write a review for this book that I last read a few years ago, but I thought sod it, it must be time for a re-read.
This is where it all started, one of the greatest SciFi series ever, a brilliant cast of characters and funny as hell story. I've watched the series so many times now that when reading the books the characters voices come so easily to me. During this reading I kept getting glimpses of Douglas Adams writing, never noticed that previously, but the explanations about space travel and the descriptions of Red Dwarf reminded me of Hitchhikers guide.
There are so many great lines; "They're dead Dave" will have me laughing no matter how many times I hear/read it.
Brilliant comedy SciFi that has gotta be read by everybody.
As a fan of the TV series, it was great to meet the cast again in this media.
