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Dave Lister has finally found his way back to the planet Earth. Which is good. What's bad is that time isn't running in quite the right direction. And if he doesn't get off the planet soon, he's going to have to go through puberty again. Backwards. Still, his crewmates have come to rescue him. Which is good. What's bad is that they consist of a robot with a hyperactive guilt chip, a creature who evolved from cats, and a dead man. And if they fail, Lister will carry on growing younger until he becomes a baby, then an embryo...And finally, he'll meet a very sticky end indeed. Rejoin the intrepid band of space zeros from Red Dwarf and Better Than Life -- Lister, Rimmer, Kryten, Holly and the Cat -- as they continue their epic journey through frontal-lobe-knotting realities where none dare venture but the bravest of the brave, the boldest of the bold or the feeblest of the feeble-minded.

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I found it a tad grim towards the end, plotwise, and I didn't really learn much more about the characters that I hadn't known in the series, but I still liked "Red Dwarf - Backwards". This book comes after "Better than Life". Rob Grant wrote this book without writing partner Doug Naylor, and with the ending going the way it does, it doesn't exactly fit in before Naylor's "The Last Human". As with the other books, it features elements from selected Red Dwarf episodes, this time from the third series and beyond.

After the events of "Better Than Life", Lister needs to be retrieved from the Backwards universe, but as Rimmer, Kryten and the Cat land on the backwards Earth to save him, they find themselves on a pre-destined path, which sees them stuck there among hillbilly hermits and wilderness. Meanwhile, Holly finds himself in a lot of trouble with some Agonoids, and a certain Ace Rimmer makes history as he jumps between dimensions. Where will they all end up?

It's worth a look, the parts in the backwards world are a lot of fun, though it's definitely a good thing to have watched the series first and know the characters and their quirks.