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Well, first let’s clarify that Grant Naylor is a pseudonym for Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, the creators of the BBC Two production Red Dwarf (1988-1999). This 1989 book and its sequel, Better than Life (1990), incorporate plot lines of several episodes of the first two seasons of the television series. After that, each wrote a completely different sequel third novel - Naylor’s is Last Human (1995), and Grant’s is Backwards (1996). In cribbage, we count that as a “double run of three” (8 points, wi
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Fun light sci-fi story... Quite funny at times, witty writing but loses its spunk a little towards the end. Wish the characters were smarter but it also is half the point of the book
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