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Comic Science Fiction: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Red Dwarf, Space Quest, Miles Vorkosigan, Tripping the Rift
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-29.
ISBN 9781157234968
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Publisher description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Red Dwarf, Space Quest, Miles Vorkosigan, Tripping the Rift, Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death, the Cyberiad, the Sirens of Titan, Tek Jansen, Luna, Colony, the Futurological Congress, Clone, the Flying Sorcerers, Bikini Planet, Ijon Tichy, the Star Diaries, Allamagoosa, Canadia 2056, Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, Funnt File, Stargonauts. Excerpt: Red Dwarf is a British comedy franchise, primarily comprising eight series of a television sitcom that ran on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and gained a cult following. It was created by, and the first six series were written by, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. The show originated from a recurring sketch, Dave Hollins: Space Cadet part of the mid-1980s BBC Radio 4 comedy show Son of Cliché, also scripted by Grant and Naylor. In addition to the television episodes, there are four bestselling novels, two pilot episodes for an American version of the show, a radio version produced for BBC radio 7, tie-in books, magazines and other merchandise. A three-episode production was commissioned by the digital channel Dave. These episodes were screened in April 2009 during the Easter weekend and comprised a three-part story titled Red Dwarf: Back to Earth. Unlike the majority of the original BBC episodes, this mini-series was a comedy drama filmed without a studio audience or an added laugh track. Despite the pastiche of science fiction used as a backdrop, Red Dwarf is primarily a character-driven comedy, with off-the-wall, often scatological science fiction elements used as complementary plot devices. In the early episodes, a recurring source of comedy was the "Odd Couple"-style relationship between the two central characters of the show, who have an intense dislike for... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25721
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