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Grant Naylor

2 Series • 9 Books

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🎯 Where Should I Start?

Best Starting Point
Publication Order of Red Dwarf Scripts Books
Start with: Primordial Soup: The Least Worst Scripts (1993)
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Publication Order of Red Dwarf Books
Start with: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1989)

ⓘ About Grant Naylor

Grant Naylor is the writing team of Doug Naylor and Rob Grant, who are best known as the authors of the “Red Dwarf” series of novels. They came to their name by combining their last names into one easy to remember one. Naylor and Grant have often called themselves a gestalt entity or something of a Legion. In the author notes for their novels, they enlarge on the joke by saying that they have separate wives for tax purposes. Their collective form has also been caricatured to Nan’t Greylar. The two authors began writing together during the 1980s. They were responsible for writing “Cliché” and “Son of Cliché” for BBC Radio 4. They also worked together on TV programs such as “The Ten Percenters,” “Spitting Image” and several Jasper Carrott projects.

All Book Series by Grant Naylor

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Primordial Soup: The Least Worst Scripts

Single-title series · published 1993

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1993
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Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

Series opener · book 1 of 8 · published 1989

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1989
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Better than Life

Book 2 of 8 · published 1990

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1990
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The Official Red Dwarf Companion

Book 3 of 8 · published 1992 Anthology · Rob Grant

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1992
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Last Human

Book 4 of 8 · published 1995 Anthology · Doug Naylor

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1995
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Backwards

Book 5 of 8 · published 1996 Anthology · Rob Grant

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1996
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Scenes From The Dwarf

Book 6 of 8 · published 1996 Anthology · Rob Grant

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1996
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Better Than Life

Book 7 of 8 · published 2024

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2024
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Titan

Latest in the series · book 8 of 8 · published 2026 Anthology · Rob Grant,Andrew Marshall

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2026

? Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Grant Naylor?

Grant Naylor is the writing team of Doug Naylor and Rob Grant, who are best known as the authors of the “Red Dwarf” series of novels. They came to their name by combining their last names into one easy to remember one. Naylor and Grant have often called themselves a gestalt entity or something of a Legion.

Which Grant Naylor series should I start with?

The best place to start is the Red Dwarf series, the earliest of Grant Naylor's multi-book series: it opens with Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1989) and runs to 8 books across 1989–2026, ending with Titan (2026).

How many books has Grant Naylor written?

Grant Naylor has 9 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1989 and 2026. Every one of them sits in one of 2 named series — the largest being the Red Dwarf series with 8 books.

In what order should Grant Naylor's series be read?

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Grant Naylor's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Red Dwarf (1989–2026, 8 books) and Red Dwarf Scripts (1993, 1 book).

How are Grant Naylor's books organised into series?

This guide splits Grant Naylor's 9 books into 2 named series, with no standalone titles: Red Dwarf (8 books, 1989–2026); Red Dwarf Scripts (1 book, 1993).