RED DWARF PROGRAMME GUIDE How many tons of reconstituted sausage pâté are stored on Red Dwarf? How did Lister get rid of Rimmer’s bridge club chums? Who was the first actress to play Kristine Kochanski? All the answers - along with much, much more non-essential information - can be found in this valuable, yet inexpensive and smeg-free, bestselling guide to the greatest SF comedy series in this universe (and most other universes). Now fully updated to include the mega-popular eighth season, this book is on the producer’s recommended reading list and is often to be found in the Red Dwarf production offices for handy reference.

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An example of my non-fiction work. Despite the above, this isn’t from the Red Dwarf Programme Guide itself, but something written at the same time: an article for SFX magazine on the making of the show’s eighth and final series. It’s co-credited to Chris Howarth - which, in this instance, means that we visited the set and conducted interviews together and that I then sifted through all the information we’d gathered and turned it into the finished article.

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Of all the Virgin Programme Guides, the Red Dwarf one was the original and is still the best. Creating a template for those that followed it, the Dwarf guide has been regularly revised and updated with each new series that has emerged. For Chris Howarth and Steve Lyons, the book always comes across as a labour of love ... and without many books being written on the subject, the Programme Guide stands as definitive ... it still manages the difficult task of keeping the comedy of the material used intact while rephrasing portions into prose ... immensely readable, and once you start, it’s difficult to put the book down again. 9

- Paul Spragg, TV Zone

(Reviews of other TV-related books:)

Chris Howarth and Steve Lyons ... have compiled an encyclopedia of everything remotely dubious about television’s longest running science fiction series, and don’t spare anybody ... the jokes very rarely fail to hit the mark, and like the best comedy, every so often a serious point wanders in and is treated as such ... If you’re not a Doctor Who fan, but have watched the programme from time to time, you’ll still get a lot out of this ... [I’m] going to give this an unqualified 10.

- Paul Simpson, Dreamwatch

With Blackadder being a fairly short series ... the book has to expand beyond the usual Virgin Guide formula, and there’s obviously been a lot of work and research put into this. The traditional examination of the episodes is here, but more interesting are the accounts of how each ‘season’ came to be, changes that were made as the team discovered what worked best, some fun trivia and a look at series that influenced or were influenced by Blackadder ... This makes it a much more complete reference work than the usual Guides and is all the better for it. I predict it’ll sell very well. 9

- Paul Spragg, TV Zone

If you’re a hardcore Who fan and have any sense then you know when to keep it zipped. So whenever you meet another fan, the resulting conversation is like blowing a hole in a dam. Reading The Completely Unofficial Encyclopedia is just like having one of those pub conversations when you can namecheck Sad Tony and the Turgids.

Like its predecessor, 1996’s Completely Useless Encyclopedia, it combines trivia, nitpicking and mickey-taking ... but the piss is extracted with such wit that even card-carrying members of the Russell T Davies Appreciation Society will chuckle. This book will only make sense to about 20,000 people, but they’ll love it. *****

- Ian Berriman, SFX