Would you prefer a new Doug book or a new Rob book?

[Rushy]

Rob seems like the easy answer, but I’d be very interested to see what kind of book Doug would produce now, because I think he’s evolved massively since his late 90s efforts. Tonally, I can’t imagine it being anything like Last Human. 

One of the big criticisms that the Dave era episodes get is that there’s a lot of great ideas that don’t get fleshed out, so maybe a book would enable Doug to really explore these things. 

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[Podey]

I’d be interested to see what Rob Grant would do with the characters after this long but if you took that away then it’d be Doug.

[Dax101]

I feel like i have seen enough of Dougs Red Dwarf to know how he writes stories. While with Rob there is a sense of the unknown as to what his modern take on Red Dwarf would look like. Id like to see what Rob does.

I’d like to see a sequel to backwards but i have a feeling we wouldn’t get it because its been so long that Rob probably doesn’t remember half the books continuity anymore.

[Warbodog]

Rob’s my reflex answer, based on the small sample from 30 years ago, but there’s a risk it wouldn’t feel right after so long away (and even Backwards didn’t always feel right). If Doug polishes up his style with his kids’ book, it could swing the other way.

[Dave]

If I had to choose, Rob. We’ve had so much Doug Dwarf that it’d just be interesting to see what he would do.

But ideally, I’d love to see new Dwarf novels from both.

[Flap Jack]

I want Doug to write a sequel to Backwards and Rob to write a sequel to Last Human.

[Rushy]

I’d like to see a sequel to backwards but i have a feeling we wouldn’t get it because its been so long that Rob probably doesn’t remember half the books continuity anymore.

Would a sequel to Backwards even need to rely on continuity? It ended with Lister and the Cat finding a pristine version of Red Dwarf with Rimmer and Kryten on it. 

You could just pick up years later and tell a fresh story. Even if there’s a continuity mishap, you can just chalk it up to it being a different Red Dwarf. 

[Technopeasant]

Paul Alexander. Wrong answer.

[Dax101]

I’d like to see a sequel to backwards but i have a feeling we wouldn’t get it because its been so long that Rob probably doesn’t remember half the books continuity anymore.

Would a sequel to Backwards even need to rely on continuity? It ended with Lister and the Cat finding a pristine version of Red Dwarf with Rimmer and Kryten on it. 
You could just pick up years later and tell a fresh story. Even if there’s a continuity mishap, you can just chalk it up to it being a different Red Dwarf. 

Its also in continuity with Infinity and BTL too. It helps if you remember a lot of plot points to not risk forgetting and overwriting stuff already written. 

Lister and Cat are still meant to be the same characters from those books so they still have that continuity even if you want to say Kryten and Rimmer do not.

[Dax101]

Paul Alexander. Wrong answer.

His novel is called Krytie TV.

[Rushy]

Its also in continuity with Infinity and BTL too. It helps if you remember a lot of plot points to not risk forgetting and overwriting stuff already written.

That would make sense if it was continuing a storyline. 

But Backwards closed a door on everything that happened. I’m not sure what book-specific information about Lister and the Cat could be relevant. Unless Lister still wants to tow Garbage World home. 

[sleepey]

I want to read Rob’s alternative version of Sin Bin Island

[Technopeasant]

Paul Alexander. Wrong answer.

His novel is called Krytie TV.

With adaptations of Pete and Can’t Smeg Won’t Smeg and a surprisingly decent recontextualizing of Epideme (without the polarizing voice) and culminating in Phwoaarr. I’d actually be morbidly curious.

[Technopeasant]

On a more serious note, seeing how Robert Llewellyn is a published author, what would his Red Dwarf novel look like?

[Warbodog]

The most likely possibility at the moment is Rob (Grant, not Llewellyn) writing the populated-universe Titan prequel novel(isation) with Andrew Marshall, which is less appealing than proper Red Dwarf (especially since I wasn’t won over by their other collaborations). Could still turn out well though.

[Nick R]

I want to read Rob Grant’s version of the Space Corps Survival Manual, containing examples of how to endure various creatively disgusting methods of torture.

[Dave]

The Space Corps Interrogation Manual.

[Flap Jack]

Back in the Gloop

[Dave]

On a more serious note, seeing how Robert Llewellyn is a published author, what would his Red Dwarf novel look like?

[Flap Jack]

I’d be excited to see a Beyond a Joke novelisation, if only because I know Robert would somehow talk his way into doing 5 days of filming in the Kryten mask for it.

[Warbodog]

That’s going to end up with an Amazon listing now.

[Rushy]

I genuinely felt bad for Robert during the Beyond a Joke commentary when he said that Doug was right to demand endless rewrites. I got the vibe that he’d originally been really excited to make it and that excitement was systematically stamped out. 

[tombow]

I’d love to read a serious novel version of Trojan

[Moonlight]

I got the vibe that he’d originally been really excited to make it and that excitement was systematically stamped out. 

That’s called making anything.

[Ben Saunders]

My band are finally about to release an album after months and years of effort and at this point I’m sick to death of it and don’t want to think about it. Working in television seems like a nightmare.

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