Digital files of the books

[Asclepius]

Simple request, but may be breaking laws, in which case please delete!

Does anyone have digital (i.e. .txt) files of the four Dwarf novels? There’s something I’d like to try and do with the files similar to what I’ve done for some other texts elsewhere. I’ll explain it all if I can get it to work.

Yes, I do already own physical copies of the books and am not looking to get something for free…!

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[Rushy]

That reminds me of the time I typed out an entire Paul Darrow novel because there weren’t any digital copies of it at all. Only took me a year. 

[Warbodog]

Annas-archive.li has txt files of the first two, the others might be in suitable formats.

[Ridley]

[Ridley]

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[Asclepius]

That reminds me of the time I typed out an entire Paul Darrow novel because there weren’t any digital copies of it at all. Only took me a year. 

Haha. I remember as a child when I had a computer, but we didn’t have a printer. I bought a typewriter at a jumble sale so that anything I wanted printed, I would type. Including my complete history of Dr. Who that I was writing.

Which Darrow novel was it? I went to a really mad script reading with him many years back He seemed utterly bemused by the place, the audience, his fellow actors, the concept…

[Asclepius]

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Is this Titan? It looks like Titan.

[Asclepius]

Annas-archive.li has txt files of the first two, the others might be in suitable formats.

Thanks! I’ll take a look…

[ReddiShadow]

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This is the story of an actor named Patrick Stewart who came in the middle of a book about a stellar mission to a red dwarf star called Alpha Proxima 4.2 light years away. The pages then got stuck together. 

But, PLEASE, don’t tell anyone the ending.

[Jenuall]

Pfft, forget all that nonsense, get yourself some legitimate sci-fi “action”:


“The year is 2280. The Pink Dwarf stripclub is in orbit around Mimas, one of the moons of Saturn. The crew are all exotic dancers and we meet Deb Lister, who is caught by her Manager, Reginald Rimmer sucking off customers in the private booths! She’s sent to stasis for the rest of the ship’s tour without pay.
Three Million years later and Lister emerges from stasis and finds all the girls and the whole crew dead and Pink Dwarf adrift in deep deep deep space. Rimmer has been brought back as a hologram and there’s a mysterious lifeform on board.
After investigating they find Cat; a gorgeous feline humanoid who evolved from the ship’s pet. She seems overly friendly but that doesn’t worry Lister but as they start to get close, Lister discovers that Cat is hiding a very special secret between her legs.”

[Rushy]

Which Darrow novel was it?

The Novel of Queen: the eYe. 

Basically, the band Queen had a video game made about their music, which was set in the post-apocalyptic future. Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce voiced the characters. 

For whatever reason, Darrow was also licensed to write a prequel novel about the game. Which in typical Darrow fashion had little to do with the source material and everything to do with Darrow’s personal interests of Shakespeare, Clint Eastwood westerns, World War II and lurid pulp in general. 

[Rushy]

I have an incredible fondness for anything Darrow wrote, because while his talent as a writer is minimal, his ability as a storyteller is beyond compare. There’s so many wonderful tangents, quips and personal idiosyncrasies put in. It’s very rich in his unique personality and humor. 

[Smeg4Brains]

I have .epub files which I then converted into .txt files, basically so I could search them for mentions of dates when I first put the On This Day In Red Dwarf twitter bot together. They are in my Google Drive but I don’t want to post a public link and I don’t think there’s a DM system on G&T.

So I think this is maybe the best way to do it… remove the spaces and replace the smeghead with: JAr689DFnIcvOz

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d r i v e . g o o g l e .com/drive/folders/1Kw_tlxSMEGHEADChNaBqjZPiKs

[Asclepius]

I have .epub files which I then converted into .txt files, basically so I could search them for mentions of dates when I first put the On This Day In Red Dwarf twitter bot together. They are in my Google Drive but I don’t want to post a public link and I don’t think there’s a DM system on G&T.
So I think this is maybe the best way to do it… remove the spaces and replace the smeghead with: JAr689DFnIcvOz

d r i v e . g o o g l e .com/drive/folders/1Kw_tlxSMEGHEADChNaBqjZPiKs

Amazing. Thank you!

[Asclepius]

I have an incredible fondness for anything Darrow wrote, because while his talent as a writer is minimal, his ability as a storyteller is beyond compare. There’s so many wonderful tangents, quips and personal idiosyncrasies put in. It’s very rich in his unique personality and humor. 

Yeah, an absolute one-off. I’ve not read anything he actually wrote – those things came along after my Blake’s 7 phase, sadly. I did get to see him do a script-read of two things. I think one was Kaldor City related. Might the other have been a re-writing of Robots of Death with him in it? I struggle to remember. It was a seated script-read, but there was one seen acted out. Paul, standing with script in hand, eating up every single one of the chairs in the room. Brilliant. Must have been late 2000s. There were some bits where Paul didn’t really know what was going in. He spared no extent in gesticulating and demonstrating this to the audience.

Edit: It was this – Manchester Fringe 2012: Robots of Death & Storm Mine Premiere | Speaker to Animals

[Nick R]

Pfft, forget all that nonsense, get yourself some legitimate sci-fi “action”:

[Pink Dwarf]

Thanks for the recommendation. But I doubt it’ll get anywhere near the standard set by Chuck Tingle’s classic Pounded in the Butt by a Hologrammatically Simulated JMC Mining Ship and Its Handsome, Green, Insect-Shaped Shuttle Craft.

[Dax101]

Waybackmachine probably has them uploaded by someone. 

[ReddiShadow]

Pfft, forget all that nonsense, get yourself some legitimate sci-fi “action”

You know things are bad at GNP when there isn’t even a Gary Downie type around to slap their name on this and make it official. But hey, fodder for 237 DwarfCasts?

[Warbodog]

That really needed to come out in the 90s so it could be presented as the authentic and relentlessly in-character recipe book the guys were sharing and writing funny messages to each other in for some reason. Lister would keep going on about curry and lager, wouldn’t he? Ha ha!

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