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Red Dwarf Books in Order

Part ofGrant Naylor Books in Order

Read the Red Dwarf novels by Grant Naylor, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor in order, with summaries of Lister and his companions' comic adventures through space and time.

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Red Dwarf books in publication order

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6 books

1

Dave Lister joins the mining ship Red Dwarf hoping to get home, only to awaken from suspended animation three million years later. With humanity apparently gone, a holographic crewmate and an evolved cat become his unlikely companions on a comic journey through space.

2

Better than Life

by Grant Naylor

1990

The Red Dwarf crew become trapped in a virtual reality game that gives each of them an apparently perfect existence. Its addictive fantasies are slowly killing them, but escaping requires wanting to leave. Their journey home takes another bewildering turn as desire undermines survival.

3

Six Red Dwarf shooting scripts bring the space comedy’s dialogue and stage directions to the page, including material omitted from broadcast. The collection covers Polymorph, Marooned, Dimension Jump, Justice, Back to Reality, and Psirens, offering another view of the crew’s misadventures.

4

Last Human

by Grant Naylor

1995

Dave Lister’s search for his double lands him aboard a prison ship heading toward a brutal penal colony. In Doug Naylor’s continuation of the Red Dwarf novels, the reluctant adventurer finds the future of humanity resting on his shoulders amid cosmic complications.

5

Backwards

by Grant Naylor

1996

Dave Lister finally reaches Earth, but time there flows in reverse. As he grows younger, his Red Dwarf companions must find a way to rescue him before he disappears entirely. Rob Grant’s continuation turns a long awaited homecoming into a dangerous temporal trap.

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Titan

by Grant Naylor

2026

On shore leave near Titan, Lister wants to acquire a cat while Rimmer seeks a shortcut to promotion. A message from the future derails their plans, sending the feuding crewmates into a struggle to save multiple realities.

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