Books question

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

Okay, another question about the novels, specifically the last two. I was reading the IMDB message board for RD and there was a thread on the books - the commenter said "The Last Human" is NOT a sequel to "Backwards," but instead, that each book is that particular writer's sequel to their last joint novel, "Better Than Life."

I post this here for two reasons. One, you guys are the best bunch of discussers (and the only ones I'm familiar with so far) of Red Dwarf, generally. Second, there's an element of possible slashiness here, I suppose. TLH ends with Lister and Kochanski getting busy recreating the human race, Rimmer dead and his son still alive (and somewhere out there, I sure hope somebody's written an OT3 - not a triangle - with Lister/Kochanski/McGruder just on principle *G*). "Backwards" ends with teenage Lister and the Cat escaping a universe where Kryten and Rimmer have been killed, into an alternate dimension where Lister and the Cat had died. (No Kochanski in sight; that was handled at the beginning of the novel.)

Is this true, that each is just a sequel to BTL? Have you ever heard this - is it common knowledge and I'm just the ignoramus? Or is it untrue?

Oh, and if they're each a BTL sequel, I suppose the question becomes, what does this say for each writer's vision of the R/L relationship? Just to keep it more on-topic.

Comments

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

It's probably a good thing they didn't have one of those women directing them. "Fourth take! Christ Jesus, aren't you two EVER going to get this right??"

(The best thing about that scene isn't so much the kiss, since - well, let's face it, it looks kind of forced because - well, let's face it, it IS kind of forced. It's the two minutes prior of the flirting and the cooing and the coyness, NONE of which looks nearly as forced. *BG*)

[dauphkantus.livejournal.com]

Chris: "It was one of those things where, dare I say it, um, the foreplay was more exciting than the actual event... where have we heard that before?"

xDD