![]() ![]() Both are published by Penguin in one volume entitled Red Dwarf Omnibus. Better Than Life was the not-very-long-awaited sequel. ![]() Red Dwarf was an enormous bestseller when published as a Penguin paperback in 1989. They can still taste the cheese 'n' onion toasties. They also spent almost two years on the night shift loading paper into computer printers at a mail-order factory in Ardwick. ![]() They have made a living variously by being ice-cream salesmen, shoe-shop assistants and by attempting to sell dodgy life-assurance policies to close friends. Among other things, they spent three years in the mid-eighties as head writers of Spitting Image wrote Radio 4's award-winning series Son of Cliche, penned the lyrics to a number one single and created and wrote Red Dwarf for BBC Television. The first body is called Rob Grant, the second Doug Naylor. They attended the same school and the same university, but, for tax reasons, have completely different wives. ![]() The product of a horribly botched genetic-engineering experiment, which took place in Manchester in the late fifties, they try to eke out two existences with only one mind. Grant Naylor is a gestalt entity occupying two bodies, one of which lives in north London, the other in south London. ![]()
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