Interesting Red Dwarf Novel Quote (a bit of a read)

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This is from the Red Dwarf novel. A character, Rimmer, is reflecting on why he never made it in life.

I remember that quote. Perhaps more uplifting is his thoughts on overcoming his 'disability', being dead....

I'm a fan of Red Dwarf, but I didn't know there's a novel? Which came first, novel or tv show?

That passage you quoted from the novel brings to mind the tv episode where Rimmer's alternative reality showed up - the guy he could have been? The handsome, big hero.

Do you agree with Rimmer's thoughts on luck?

What, that it's a virus?

The novels were existent due to the contract. For every few series, I guess they had to make a novel too.

The novels follow very closely too the episodes, and yet they don't. For example, I once had Me squared and Kryten Episodes at the same time! But they also deviate as well (for example, they visit Garbage World)

There are 3 or 4 novels plus a few other miscellaneous books, like the Red Dwarf Survival Kit. I believe the series came first, and then thee books expounded and went beyond the curent season, and then shows were written from the same source. They are mostly the same, but with a few key differences. For instance, if you remember the episode DNA (where Kryton becomes human) it is Kochanski, not Lister, who comes to see how he is getting on in the infirmary.

Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers basically novelises "The End", "Future Echoes", "Kryten", "Me[sup]2[/sup]" and "Better Than Life".

Better Than Life picks up where Infinity leaves off, novelising "Better Than Life", "Marooned", "Polymorph", and taking aspects from "Backwards". Apparently the episode "White Hole" was based on elements of the novel that occurred later in the episode (Holly's IQ expansion, "playing pool with planets")

Here the novel continuities branch drastically, as Rob Grant and Doug Naylor made their own, continuity-exclusive Red Dwarf novels.

Last Human Basically takes plots from "Quarantine", "DNA" (as noted before), "Back to Reality", "Emohawk: Polymorph II", "Psirens" and "Legion". It features Kochanski in Starbug, but in her CP Grogan version, but with elements that would make it into Chloe Annet's version. It also features paralell versions of the Dwarf crew, including a very different Lister...

Backwards mainly takes elements from "Backwards", "Dimension Jump" and "Gunmen of the Apocalypse". Kochanski is left on the backwards Earth, and it has a sadder ending, though Last Human has tragic elements to its ending...

I like Rimmer. Completely hopeless is he.

I can also really relate to Kryten with his learning.

And his high-pitched:

"You're lying! !! !"

I love Red Dwarf, but I haven't read any of those novels.

Rimmer Experience FTW.

ever since i found out i was AS, i wondered if the character Rimmer was as well......

i know the writers would have planned this, and they obviously took the character type from people they knew... but he DOES show the characteristics....

in fact..... now that i think about it.... they ALL are..... Holly and Kochanski too....

think of that... the last remaining humans and products of humans are all Aspie

Haha!

Wait, didn't it say the human race started as slime and ended as slime? (Dave Lister)

I'd love to own a miniature of the Dwarf. Both the old and new versions.