Sin, sin, sin, sin, sin… oh, I’ve not sin that! News Posted by Jonathan Capps on 22nd March 2025, 22:07 Well, here’s one for all the fans who wanted Doug to write a new novel. Please, ignore that monkey’s paw curling its finger… Thank you to clem over on the forum for spotting that Doug Naylor will be releasing a new children’s book this September, entitled Sin Bin Island. At the end of each year, four pupils from Cyril Sniggs’s Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls are banished to Sin Bin Island, an eerie place surrounded by eel-infested waters. Legend has it, the island has a secret tunnel, used to smuggle magic into mainland England. But in over 300 years the tunnel has never been found. Nor has any of the magic. This year, all that’s going to change. How intriguing! We’ll have to wait until September to see if Cyril Sniggs’s controversial ‘abandon children on the secret magic eel island’ will pay off for the lad. The book is aimed at children 9 to 11, and as someone with a child who will be approaching that age range when this is released I’m really looking forward to seeing what Doug can bring to not quite young adults’ fiction. This definitely seems to be one of those books that will be on the darker side of things, possibly more in line with things like Lemmony Snicket that anything else, and I really do hope he’s able to bring some of the Naylor magic that a lot of us experienced as kids reading the Red Dwarf novels, but this time to the next (next) generation.
Requesting Doug to send me a free copy, and also mail a copy to twenty years ago when I was in the target age range. I think both of us would enjoy it.
Looking forward to the quotes on the back cover: “If Doug’s target audience is Red Dwarf fans who’ve had sex, he’s made a huge mistake” – Craig Charles
Cowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged This is what immediately popped into my head too, and I thought “I won’t post that, it’s niche and mildly insane”… then a second later I scroll down to see you’ve already done it.
Cyril Sniggs I can only assume Doug was a huge fan of The Raccoons. As he should be, but I am Canadian so of course I would say that.
The tunnel is a metaphor for bone marrow transplants. This is Interesting. Now to dither on whether or not I’ll get it based solely on it being Red Dwarf adjacent for a while then buy it anyway unless it goes out of print first.
Cyril Sniggs I can only assume Doug was a huge fan of The Raccoons. As he should be, but I am Canadian so of course I would say that. As a direct result of this thread, I have had Run With Us stuck in my head all week.
Cyril Sniggs could not sound more like a character name from a Python sketch. American says it sounds like a British comedy troupe skit. Brits say it sounds like a Canadian cartoon character. But perhaps Doug has just finally created a nice South African.
I believe this short video clip is relevant to the current discussion: https://bsky.app/profile/demontomatodave.bsky.social/post/3lkljeevkzc2y
Mundane observation: was “a female aardvark” written after a watch of Ink and Incapability, or is it just a universal truism that the word aardvark is funny?
I make the effort to come to the G&T front page on April Fool’s Day, and this is still up top? Shame on you.
I was planning on using a Smegadrive image in the Discord last night but literally couldn’t bring myself to do it, thanks to this year’s joke.
You’re looking in the wrong place. Am I? Sorry. Christ, they make you *work* to try and find a fucking joke now. Mind you, they’ve done that for years, really.
Haha, I get it. If you post any Smega-Drive image, it gets replaced with that frame of Rimmer in Back to Reality.Unfortunately I spoiled the joke for myself somewhat by coincidentally picking that exact frame anyway, but I appreciate the intent.
Haha, I get it. If you post any Smega-Drive image, it gets replaced with that frame of Rimmer in Back to Reality.
