This is it then, my friends. The end of the road. We’ve reached the last of the Red Dwarf novels – Rob Grant’s Backwards. A second, alternative version of events that follow on from the reality bending rollercoaster that is Better Than Life.
Which, I guess, kind of makes this the Superman Returns of the Red Dwarf universe. No, hang on, that’s far too cruel a way to start this review. This is not Superman Returns, and it’s not Superman 3 either. Or, sadly, the first Superman. Very much few things out there are the first Superman movie. A lot of things might think they are, but they’re more sort of Superman 2, if you know what I mean.
In fact, let’s just steer clear of the Superman references from now on. You’re not going to find as many winners there as you’d like to think. Whereas, so far, these Red Dwarf novels have all worked for me, three out of three.
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