Red Dwarf

Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

By: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

Narrated by: Chris Barrie

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk!

After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly-board pub crawl around London, he came to in a burger bar on one of Saturns moons, wearing a lady's pink crimplene hat and a pair of yellow fishing waders, with no money and a passport in the name of "Emily Berkenstein".

Joining the Space Corps seemed a good idea. Red Dwarf, a clapped out spaceship, was bound for Earth. It never made it, leaving Lister as the last remaining member of the human race, three million light years from Earth, with only a dead man, a senile computer, and a highly evolved cat for company.

They begin their journey home. On the way, they'll break the light barrier. They'll meet Einstein, Archimedes, God, and Norman Wisdom...and discover an alternative plane of reality.

©1989 Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (P)1992 Laughing Stock Productions Ltd

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have always loved red dwarf ever since the beginning. love this take on the story

Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers read by Rimmer

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

An Excellent storyline read superbly by Chris Barrie (Rimmer)

What other book might you compare Red Dwarf to and why?

The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy is another great Science Fiction book/audiobook

Have you listened to any of Chris Barrie’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I've also listened to Better Than Life and Chris Barrie was exceptional in both audiobooks

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, and it was better than I thought it would be

Any additional comments?

If you like the Red Dwarf TV series then Infinity Welcomes to Careful Drivers and Better Than Life are a MUST. They fill in the gaps from seasons 1-4

Cut off in the middle of the story

If you could sum up Red Dwarf in three words, what would they be?

good but cut-off

What does Chris Barrie bring to the story that you wouldn???t experience if you just read the book?

He was very good

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The ending... I guess it is a cliff hanger ending..

Any additional comments?

The book ended in the middle of the story.. It is a very good story so if you want to listen to it you will need to buy the second book Better than life.

So. Good. You won’t regret it.

This was such a fun listen. I’ve read the book many times, but this was a whole new experience. Chris Barrie NAILS it. He’s a great mimic and he smashes every voice. I can’t get over it. So. Good.

very funny

The story was a little hard to follow in the beginning but very quickly I found it hard to stop listening.

shipwrecked&comatose

If I had to be shipwrecked and comatose I'd love to have Chris Barrie (that brilliant impressionist) reading out the scripts of Red Dwarf while perfectly voicing each member of the crew. I only wish that Chris Barrie had more books on audible he is an utter delight to the ears.

I love Red Dwarf Brit-com classic

I completely enjoyed the TV series and the book was fantastic! Well performed, well written, funny, and nostalgic. I want to lie, shipwrecked and comatose, Drinking fresh, mango juice!

Fan-smegging-tastic!

This is the ONLY book you will ever need to get you through life. Better than the bible lol!

Finally!

I've been wanting to find this book unabridged for years! Chris Barrie is an awesome narrator, and I wish he read more books. The way he can do the voices of all the RD characters is nothing short of amazing! Thank you, Audible, for making this book available. Let's hope that Better than Life is coming soon!

A great Sci-Fi parody classic.

If you liked "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", "Airplane" the movie, Naked Gun or anything like them you'll probably like this too. If you hate them you'll probably hate this. I loved this series, I loved this book when I got it as a kid as one of my first science fiction books from the sci-fi book club in the mail. When I first read it I didn't realize it was parody until I was well into it. This was probably my first exposure to parody sci-fi/fantasy stories and warped me. With Chris Barie's, one of the actors from the TV show based on this book reading it is a real delight since he is very talented at doing different voices for the characters. A must buy for parody and Red Dwarf fans.
Lister gets frozen for 3 millions years to save him from a radiation leak on the mining ship Red Dwarf and ends up as the last living human in the universe. With a creature that evolved from his pet cat and the hologram program of his dead annoying roommate Rimmer and a senile computer of the ship named Holly he decides to turn the ship around and find out what happened to humanity in 3 million years and survive with his sanity intact.