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BETTER THAN LIFE
Grant Naylor is a gestalt entity occupying two bodies, one of which lives in north London, the other in south London.
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. They attended the same school and the same university, but, for
tax reasons, have completely different wives.
The first body is called Rob Grant, the second Doug Naylor. 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.
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. They also spent almost two years on the night shift loading paper into
computer printers at a mail-order factory in Ardwick. They can still taste the cheese 'n' onion toasties.
Their favourite colour is orange. Red Dwarf was an enormous bestseller when published as a Penguin paper-back in
1989. Better Than Life was the not-very-long-awaited sequel. Both are published by Penguin in one volume entitled
Red Dwarf Omnibus.
Penguin also publish Primordial Soup: Red Dwarf Scripts, and Son of Soup: A Second Serving of the Least Worst
Scripts is forthcoming. Last Human, a third Red Dwarf novel by Doug Naylor, is also available in Penguin.



GRANT NAYLOR




BETTER
THAN LIFE
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Special thanks to Ed Bye for being unnecessarily tall and wonderful, to Paul Jackson for being not so tall, but equally
wonderful, and to Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Hattie Hayridge, Robert Llewelyn and Peter Wragg.
Thanks also to BBC Northwest and all the Red Dwarf backstage crew.


CONTENTS
Part One
Game over тАв 1

Part Two
She rides тАв 83

Part Three
Garbage world -125

Part Four
The end, and after -215

PROLOGUE
Time is a character in this novel.