36 Are there books about Red Dwarf?
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This article is from the Red Dwarf FAQ, by Patrick M. Berry pat@interpath.com with numerous contributions by others.
36 Are there books about Red Dwarf?
Numerous Red Dwarf reference works are available:
The Official Red Dwarf Companion
by Bruce Dessau
ISBN 1-85286-456-7
Titan, 1995
This thin little book (95 pages) has a lot of wasted space, but some
interesting quotes and information and some wonderful color photos
throughout. If you're looking for in-depth, solid information about the
show, this isn't where you'll find it; but if you want a nice, light read,
a collector's item, and an attractive coffee-table book, this is it. Listed
as available on http://www.amazon.co.uk, but at least one fan was told it
was out of print.
Red Dwarf Programme Guide
by Chris Howarth and Steve Lyons
ISBN 0-7535-0103-1
Virgin, 1997
"Everything you never wanted to know about the smash smega-series." An
in-depth collection (337 pages) of information about Series 1-7. It
includes sections on History, The Characters, The Programmes, The Index,
The Creators (cast and production crew), and The Spin-offs. The Index, by
far the largest section of the book, is a lexicon of almost everything
mentioned to during the series, from "A to Z of Red Dwarf, The" to "Zoom
function".
Red Dwarf--Primordial Soup: The Least Worst Scripts
by Grant Naylor
ISBN 0-14-017886-4
Penguin, 1993
This book contains the complete scripts for "Polymorph," "Marooned,"
"Dimension Jump," "Justice," "Back to Reality," and "Psirens." Not
published in the U.S., but available from John McElroy and other
distributors of imported books.
Red Dwarf: Son of Soup
by Grant Naylor
ISBN 0-14-025363-7
Penguin, 1996
A sequel to Primordial Soup, containing scripts for "Gunmen of the
Apocalypse," "Holoship," "Camille," "Backwards," "Kryten," and "Me^2," with
introductions by Rob Grant.
The Man in the Rubber Mask
by Robert Llewellyn
ISBN 0-14-023575-2
Penguin, 1994
Describes Llewellyn's involvement in Red Dwarf from the beginning of Series
3 through the filming of the American pilots. Plenty of anecdotes and
stories, and lots of trivia. The section on the American pilots is
especially revealing, and gives some plausible reasons why the whole
project fell through.
The Making of Red Dwarf
by Joe Nazzaro
ISBN 0-14-023206-0
Penguin, 1994
A rather slender book with lots of colour photographs. Focuses on the
making of "Gunmen Of The Apocalypse". The book goes into a fair amount of
detail, but nothing that couldn't have been gleaned from a half-dozen back
issues of the now-defunct Smegazine. The book's main strength is the added
material: some great photos, fragments of the original "Gunmen" script
(mostly stage directions, but also one unfilmed scene) and storyboards used
in the filming. The back of the book contains information on how you can
purchase Red Dwarf paraphernalia such as t-shirts, baseball caps, and
models of Starbug and Kryten.
Red Dwarf Quiz Book
by Nicky Hooks and Sharon Burnett
ISBN 0-14-023662-7
Penguin, 1994
Red Dwarf trivia and brain-teasers. Contains questions such as "What was
referred to as a small off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic warden?",
crosswords, word searches, "who said . . .", information about the cast,
and photos. After a while, though, you have to wonder about the mind of
someone who can come up with questions such as "What follows the leaflet
campaign?" or "What was in canister 1121?"
A Question of Smeg
by Sharon Burnett and Nicky Hooks
ISBN 0-140-27070-1
Penguin, 1997
Sequel to the Quiz Book. Contains puzzles, quiz questions, and colour
photographs.
Red Dwarf Space Corps Survival Manual
by Paul Alexander
ISBN 0-7493-2374-4
Mandarin, 1996
A survival guide for Space Corps officers, written by fictional Marine
Colonel Mike "Mad Dog" O'Hagan (who served with the Space Corps Special
Service Really Really Brave Division). Has sections on finding food and
water, setting traps and snares, appointing a leader, survival psychology,
first aid, and even surviving death. Includes numerous marginal notes and
comments scribbled by the Lister, Rimmer, Kryten, and the Cat, a survival
questionnaire filled out by each crewmember, and a flicker-book animation
(of an arm being amputated) in a corner of the pages. Pictures from Series
7 appears as snapshots "taped" into the book. Quite funny, if a little
fixated on cannibalism (or, as Col. O'Hagan prefers to call it,
"recipe-based respect for the dead"). 112 pages.
Red Dwarf Log No. 1996
by Paul Alexander
ISBN 0-434-00370-0
William Heineman Ltd, 1995
A 1996 diary with a few extras. Computerised entries by the four
crewmembers and Holly are scattered through the pages, along with recipes,
Space Corps book excerpts, and other assorted items. Several new Space
Corps Directives appear for the first time in this book.
The Log: A Dwarfer's Guide to Everything
by Craig Charles & Russell Bell
ISBN 0-14-026862-6
Penguin, 1997
From the back cover:
Read this book and learn:
* to avoid Not-a-Cats
* never to keep anything radioactive in your pants
* not to place your head inside anything with "Head Remover"
written on it
* a lot about food, and how to do it
Containing Craig Charles's tips on how to survive in the hostile
Universe that is Life.
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