The Red Dwarf Omnibus contains the first two Red Dwarf novels, as well as a number of additional items.
Red Dwarf OmnibusRED DWARF and BETTER THAN LIFE — the two bestselling novels — together for the first time in one volume.
THE PROLOGUE... THE SEQUEL...
THE STORY... THE EXPLANATION...
The human race began as slime and ended as slime.
His name was Lister.
Celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London, he ended up three million years from Earth, marooned in the wrong plane of the wrong dimension of the wrong reality, and down to his last two cigarettes...
Together with a dead man, a senile computer, a deranged sanitation mechanoid with an overactive guilt chip and the best-dressed entity in all six known universes, the last remaining member of the human race begins his epic journey home.
A journey that will take him two lifetimes.
On the way he'll break the Light Barrier...meet Einstein, God and Elvis...shoot pool with planets...battle emotion-stealing chameleonic mutant parasites...and play Reality's ultimate game...
CONTAINS NEW MATERIAL, INCLUDING THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE TV PILOT SCRIPT AND THE BEER MAT ON WHICH THE ORIGINAL IDEA WAS FIRST SCRIBBLED.
Publisher Penguin Books Format Paperback Publication Date 1992 Original Price £8.99 ISBN 0-14-017466-4 Country UK
Edition Notes
- As well as containing Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life, the book also includes a reproduction of the text that appeared on the infamous beer mat that the premise for the series was originally written on, a script for an episode of Dave Hollins — Space Cadet which was broadcast as part of the Son of Cliché radio series on BBC Radio 4 in 1984, and the original pilot script to the Red Dwarf television series, dated 1984.
Red Dwarf Omnibus
Publisher Science Fiction Book Club Format Hardback Publication Date 1993 Original Price $10.98 ISBN UNKNOWN Country USA
Edition Notes
- This book club edition was the only Red Dwarf hardback to be published in the United States.
General Notes
- Grant Naylor is a pen-name of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
- The omnibus is slightly edited. Both versions contain the script to the pilot episode of the TV series, with the UK edition also featuring the script to Dave Hollins — Space Cadet, the radio sketch which eventually spawned the Red Dwarf television series..
