Naylor, Grant
Entry updated 7 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
Joint pseudonym of UK scriptwriters and authors Rob Grant (see his entry for solo works) and Doug Naylor (see his entry for solo title), who worked for three years as head writers for Spitting Image (1984-1996), a satirical television series using a combination of puppets and live action, and who wrote the Red Dwarf (1988-current) television series, which weds black Humour and Space Opera. Their two book-length Ties to the series are Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1989), and Better than Life (1990), both assembled with additional material as Red Dwarf Omnibus (omni 1992). The latter is an early example (see Clichés) of the trapped-in-a-game topos (see Computer Role Playing Game; Virtual Reality). Some of the latter scripts have been published as Primordial Soup: Red Dwarf Scripts (coll 1993) and Son of Soup: A Second Serving of the Least Worst Scripts (coll 1996), the latter as by Grant and Naylor. [JC]
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Rob Grant
born Salford, Lancashire
Douglas R Naylor
born Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire: 31 December 1955
works
series
Red Dwarf
- Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (London: Penguin Books, 1989) [tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: pb/]
- Better than Life (London: Viking, 1990) [tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: hb/Paul Grant]
- Red Dwarf Omnibus (London: Penguin Books, 1992) [omni of the above two: tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: pb/]
- Primordial Soup: Red Dwarf Scripts (London: Penguin Books, 1993) [scripts: coll: tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: pb/photographic]
- Son of Soup: A Second Serving of the Least Worst Scripts (London: Penguin Books, 1996) as by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor [scripts: coll: tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: pb/photographic]
- Backwards (London: Viking, 1996) as Rob Grant [tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: hb/Bill Gregory]
- Red Dwarf VIII (London: Virgin, 1999) [scripts: coll: tie to Red Dwarf: Red Dwarf: hb/photocollage]
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