contents“When it comes to weirdy, paradoxy space stuff, I’ve bought the t-shirt.”

—Lister, “Cassandra”

Acknowledgments v

Foreword by Jonathan Capps vii

Introduction by Paul C Giachetti ix

Abbreviation Key: A Guide to the Guide xiv

The Encyclopedia

0-9 2 A 22 B 52 C 91 D 132 E 162 F 180 G 199 H 223 I 257 J 267 K 282 L to Z See Volume 2

“That’s why I had my appendix out… twice.”

—Rimmer, “Thanks for the Memory”

Appendix I: The Red Dwarf Episode Guide 301

Appendix II: The Universes of Red Dwarf 321

Appendix III: Other Red Dwarf-related Books 325

Appendix IV: Categorical Index See Volume 2

About the Author 327

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Baywatch Nights, an American science fiction police drama that spun off from David Hasselhoff’s Baywatch series, with the premise of a policeman quitting his job to open a detective agency. The phrase “Robots Never Sleep” presumably derived from “We Never Sleep,” the well-known slogan of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

• Androids Shower Radio: A product sold by Crapola Inc , sporting the logo of the television soap opera Androids When hit with water, the radio played the Androids theme song A button on the device allowed users to hear an alternate song, “Goto 10 If You Love Me,” which had played during the

• android sheep: Mechanical representations of Ovis aries, available at a brothel on Mimas to customers who enjoyed bestiality [N-INF]

• Androids Nights: A spinoff of the television soap opera Androids, the tagline of which was “Robots Never Sleep ” The short-lived series revolved around protagonist Capston’s plan to start a detective agency, with the android navigating a trail of murder, mystery and adultery that led to a confrontation with a character called Jaysee The series’ DVD featured eighteen minutes of bonus materials, including making-of specials, outtakes and deleted scenes, and retailed for $£18 99 [W-CRP]

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Red Dwarf and inquired about their experience; he explained the goal of the game, and was amused to learn how much of it they had missed He then prepped the machine for a new group of players, directing the old crew to the recuperation lounge [T-SER5.6]

• Ange: A cutesy nickname, short for “Angel,” that Lister gave Kochanski during their brief romance [N-INF]

• Angel Islington, The: A London district featured in that city’s version of Monopoly [RL] For his twenty-fourth birthday, Lister and several friends embarked on a Monopoly board pub crawl across London; their fifth stop was The Angel Islington, where they ordered mezcals [N-INF]

• anger: An emotional state characterized by a strong feeling of displeasure and animosity toward something or someone [RL] After escaping a hazardous waste pod and boarding Red Dwarf, a polymorph attacked the crew by changing form to elicit and feed on their emotions It targeted Rimmer by taking the form of his mother and describing her sexual exploits with Lister involving Alphabetti Spaghetti, after which it drained the anger from Arnold’s mind [T-SER3.3]

While being analyzed by Red Dwarf’s chief psychiatric counselor, Kryten boasted that anger and rudimentary mindless violence were emotions he had acquired with Lister’s help He then demonstrated this by smashing the counselor’s hand with his fist [T-SER8.1]

• Angling Times: A weekly British publication dedicated to the sport of fishing [RL] After Kryten entered lie mode to assure Rimmer that his high-velocity garbage cannon would work, he quietly told Lister that Arnold had fallen for his ruse—hook, line, sinker, rod and copy of Angling Times [T-SER6.1]

• angry chipmunk affair, the: An incident aboard Red Dwarf involving Lister, Chen, Selby and Petersen, with Selby reportedly the mastermind [G-BIT]

• Annett, Chloë: A British actor who portrayed Kristine Kochanski on the comedy television series Red Dwarf [RL] While trapped in an elation squid hallucination, Lister discovered that Annett, who had portrayed Kochanski up until

wedding of characters Simone and Derek The shower radio was made in Taiwan and sold for $£9 99 [W-CRP]

• Androids Singing Mug: A product sold by Crapola Inc , sporting the logo of the television soap opera Androids When lifted, the black mug played the program’s theme song The cup was made in Taiwan and sold for $£8 99 [W-CRP]

• Androids—The Movie III: The third feature film based on the television soap opera Androids The film was one of Kryten’s favorites [M-SMG1.1(a)]

NOTE: This, of course, implied there were two prior Androids movies.

• Androids—The Movie IV: The fourth feature film based on the television soap opera Androids In the movie, Kelly ironed while Simone was threatened with shutdown The film, directed by Android 25143/B, was broadcast on Groovy Channel 27 at 10:30 PM on Wednesday, the 27th of Geldof, 2362 [M-SMG1.7(a)]

• Android Zzzzz/z: The robotic production accountant on the television soap opera Androids [T-SER2.1(d)]

• Andromeda Galaxy: A spiral galaxy roughly 2 5 million light-years away from the Milky Way, and the nearest neighboring galaxy [RL] When scientists in the twenty-second century discovered that the Sun’s lifespan had been severely reduced by attempts to control Earth’s weather, the World Council developed a plan to relocate humanity to a planet within the Andromeda Galaxy

Initially inhospitable due to its lava and magma surface, the planet was chosen for its potential to be terraformed using specially designed viruses and custom species of GELFs The first phase of the mission included launching a ship, the Mayflower, toward Andromeda to start the process of terraforming; it never arrived, however, having been knocked off course by a GELF mutiny against the human crew [N-LST]

• Andy: An individual whom the Red Dwarf crew imagined meeting while trapped in a despair squid hallucination Andy, a service technician for Leisure World International, greeted the crew after they awoke from the total-immersion video game

B-: Books PRG: Red Dwarf Programme Guide SUR: Red Dwarf Space Corps

Survival Manual PRM: Primordial Soup SOS: Son of Soup SCE: Scenes from the Dwarf LOG: Red Dwarf Log No. 1996 RD8: Red Dwarf VIII EVR: The Log: A Dwarfer’s Guide

to Everything

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videos, etc. PST: Posters at DJ XVII (2013) CAL: 2008 calendar RNG: Cell phone ringtones MOB: Mobisode (“Red Christmas”) CIN: Children in Need sketch GEK: Geek Week intros by Kryten TNG: “Tongue-Tied” video

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• daffodil: A word that replaced “drill” in Holly’s vocabulary database after an electrical fire damaged her voice-recognition unit As a result, she informed the crew that the order to “abandon shop” was “not a daffodil” [T-SER5.5]

• Daily Asteroid, The: A daily newspaper serving Tunbridge Wells, England After a meteor shower damaged the astrodome protecting Tunbridge Wells, the publication ran the headline “Pilgrims to Pray for End to Meteors,” and reported that a pilgrim ship containing five hundred town residents had launched on a mission to visit a holy shrine [M-SMG1.14(c2)]

• Daily Goal List: A “to do” list that Rimmer created to track his achievements One item on a Thursday list—decontaminating the Officers’ Block—was never completed, which Lister only discovered after entering that area Rimmer then put the job on his next Daily Goal List, as item thirty-four, after “Learn Portuguese” [T-SER1.5]

• Daily Smeg, The: A daily newspaper serving the city of Smegopolis in 2315, in the universe known as Alternative 2X13/L [M-SMG2.1(c3)]

• Daizee: A 4000 Series mechanoid aboard Red Dwarf in a universe in which the sexes were reversed Daizee, Kryten’s female counterpart in that reality, helped Deb Lister take care of her two sons, Jim and Bexley [M-SMG1.5(c2)]

NOTE: This contradicted the official website, which claimed that the mechanoid, though female, was still named Kryten. Daizee’s name was presumably an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the HAL-9000 computer (after whom Holly was named) sang a song called “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two).”

• Dalai Lama, the: The title of the religious leader of Tibetian Buddhists [RL]

A waxdroid replica of the Dalai Lama was created for the Waxworld theme park Left on their own for millions of years, the waxdroids attained sentience and became embroiled in a park-wide resource war between Villain World and Hero World (to which the Dalai Lama belonged) During this war, the Red Dwarf crew transported to the planet using a Matter Paddle, with Lister and Cat materializing in Villain territory, while Rimmer and Kryten landed in Hero territory

Rimmer found the heroes’ army lacking and took command, working many of the pacifistic waxdroids to death before ordering a frontal attack on the enemy’s compound across a minefield, which wiped out the remaining droids The Dalai Lama waxdroid stepped on a landmine and exploded [T-SER4.6]

• Daley: Rimmer’s former bunkmate aboard Red Dwarf before Lister Arnold blamed Daley, as well as several other past bunkmates, for holding him back and preventing him from becoming an officer [N-INF]

• Dali, Salvador: A twentieth-century Spanish painter specializing in surreal imagery [RL] After Rimmer’s hard drive crashed during a resentment attack that caused the hologram to freeze up, Cat used a felt-tipped pen to draw a mustache on his face in the style of Dali, asking Lister and Kryten to guess who it was [T-SER10.1]

• Dall, Tarka: See Dhal, Tarka

• Dallas Electric: A company located near W 84th Avenue in Dallas, Texas, circa 1966 This firm existed in an alternate timeline created when the Starbug 1 crew prevented President John F Kennedy’s assassination The crew passed a sign for the business while searching for clues to the population’s disappearance; near the sign, they found a dead man who appeared to have been trampled to death [T-SER7.1]

NOTE: A company called Dallas Electric has been in operation since 1967—a year after the crew’s arrival in Texas.

• Dallas Morning News, The: A daily newspaper founded in 1885, serving the Dallas, Texas, area [RL] After John F Kennedy was arrested in an alternate timeline created when the Starbug 1 crew prevented his assassination, the U S S R constructed nuclear bases in Cuba, prompting the evacuation of several major U S cities The Dallas Morning News reported the incident, with the headline “Millions Flee From American Cities” [T-SER7.1]

• Dallas Police Department: The principal law-enforcement agency serving the city of Dallas, Texas [RL] In an alternate timeline, U S President John F Kennedy survived an assassination attempt due to the interference of Starbug 1’s crew, and subsequently had an affair with the mistress of Mafia boss Sam Giancana, for which he was impeached in 1964 and imprisoned the following year To fix the timeline, the crew brought Kennedy back to 1963 so he could assassinate himself from a grassy knoll To move about the area undetected, Kennedy procured a uniform from the Dallas Police Department [T-SER7.1]

• damage-control report: A function of Kryten series mechanoids that printed a rundown of an android’s current operational state from its abdomen Kryten requested a damage-control report after awakening with a hangover from the previous night’s party, which Lister had organized to honor Kryten’s last day of service [T-SER3.6]

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by occasionally making dandelion sorbet from the ingredients [T-SER6.5]

• “Danger”: A word on a label adorning a canister near Taiwan Tony, an Asian fast-food dispenser aboard Red Dwarf [T-SER10.2]

• “Danger 2,000 Gigawatts”: A phrase on a door sign mounted in Red Dwarf’s hologram simulation suite Behind the door was a head-mountable device used to transfer memories from an individual into the hologram simulation suite’s terminal [T-SER2.5]

• “Danger Low Gravity No Leaping”: A warning printed on a sign posted on the wall of Nova 5’s dining area [T-SER2.1]

• Dangerous, Ezekiel, Doctor: A medical professional who awarded a certificate of strictness to Queeg 500, according to the backup computer [W-OFF]

NOTE: It is unknown whether Dangerous actually existed, given that Queeg was merely a creation of Holly.

• “Danger—Robots In Operation”: A warning printed on a sign posted in the hallways of the American mining ship Red Dwarf [T-USA1]

• Darin-Tor: The leader of the Cloisterists, a sect of the Cat People aboard Red Dwarf who believed their god’s true name was Cloister They fought a two-thousand-year holy war against the Clisterists, led by Kadok, who believed the deity was named Clister

The two opposing leaders met their god—Lister—after members of a neutral third sect, the Elite, traveled into the future to bring him back in time to end the conflict Kadok, looking to secure his position as leader, tried to take Lister and the others hostage, but Darin-Tor threw himself at his rival, enabling Lister to escape During the commotion, Kadok fatally stabbed Darin-Tor [M-SMG2.3(c1)]

• Dark, The: A rock band, circa 2137, who found themselves at the center of a controversial advertising campaign when Magnus Sonsonson claimed to have discovered the speed of

• damage-report machine: A component aboard many JMC vessels that determined and reported any damage done to the ship [T-SER1.5] Certain damage-report machines were produced by Space Cadet LLC and distributed by Crapola Inc through its annual SCABBY catalog [G-RPG]

When Red Dwarf collided with a meteor, its damage-report machine was itself damaged [T-SER1.5] Starbug 1’s damage-report machine was similarly impaired when the crew battled a Space Corps enforcement vehicle [T-SER6.4]

• Dambusters, The: A 1955 British World War II film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd [RL] In one of Ace Rimmer’s universes, Olaf Petersen was arrested on the grounds of Europa’s Space Corps test facility after racing around the park singing The Dambusters’s theme song while hurling glow-in-the-dark, urine-filled condoms at security booths [N-BCK]

• Dan, Uncle: A foster relative of Dave Lister Uncle Dan was purported to be quite loud when using the bathroom [T-SER8.6]

• Dancer: A fire-breathing racing yak that Cat imagined while trapped in an addictive version of Better Than Life When Lister and Rimmer visited Cat at his golden castle to inform him that they were in the game, they found him on a fire-breathing racing yak, about to start a dog hunt Noticing his guests, Cat ordered his Valkyrie assistant to saddle up two more yaks, Dancer and Prancer, so they could join him [N-INF]

NOTE: The yaks were named after two of Santa Claus’s magical flying reindeer.

• Dan Dare: A 1950s British comic strip created by illustrator Frank Hampson, about space adventurer Colonel Daniel McGregor Dare [RL] Lister, afflicted with space mumps, complained about his appearance when the crew found an escape pod possibly containing a human female, saying that if he painted his head green he could audition for a part in Dan Dare [T-SER4.3(d)]

• dandelion sorbet: A dessert made from the fungi and moss found on asteroids, as well as dandelion flowers After Starbug 1’s refrigeration unit malfunctioned, the crew resorted to surviving on such flora; Kryten attempted to vary the menu

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• Darren: A hillbilly version of Lister in an alternate universe ravaged by the tyrannical Ace “Blackheart” Rimmer, who killed Darren’s sweetheart, Kochanski While visiting this reality, another Ace Rimmer was mistaken for Blackheart by Dorrie (a humanoid whose species evolved from a dormouse), Kritter (a hillbilly cyborg analog of Kryten) and Darren, who shot him with a 38 calibre shotgun, wounding his shoulder

Upon realizing the mistaken identity, Darren told Ace that Blackheart had laid waste to their settlement and would return to f inish the job—which he did a moment later Darren and Kritter attacked Blackheart, but were both shot in the knees, leaving Dorrie to shoot the villain in the head [M-SMG1.14(c5)]

• Darroch, Bobby: A Junior C classmate of Ace Rimmer While competing against Darroch in a two-hundred-yard dash, Ace intentionally threw the race so Bobby would win, knowing how much it meant to him [N-BCK]

• Dash, Mercy: The hostess of the television game show 20,000,000 Watts My Line in Jake Bullet’s universe While investigating the death of contestant Philby Frutch, Bullet found Dash in Frutch’s apartment She explained that she and Frutch had been lovers, and had planned to use his winnings to pay for an operation to cure Philby’s nerdism before going away on holiday [M-SMG1.14(c6)]

Captured by goons sent by the game show’s TV station, Bullet discovered that Dash was also romantically involved with the show’s host, Milty, who had sent her in to find out how Frutch had cheated on the show, after which she murdered him Milty and Dash attempted to electrocute Bullet, but died when the cyborg chomped on Milty’s microphone cable, shocking them instead [M-SMG2.2(c2)]

A month later, Bullet’s mind envisioned apparitions of Milty and Dash as he fell from a building to his apparent death [M-SMG2.6(c6)]

• Dastardly and Muttley: A pair of villainous characters from Hanna Barbara’s animated television series Wacky Races and its spinoff, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines [RL] Their names adorned a patch sewn onto Lister’s leather jacket [T-SER2.1]

darkness, which he claimed was faster than the speed of light This turned the physics world on its end until he admitted it was just a publicity stunt for The Dark—though, ironically, his fake theory was proven correct fifteen years later The group’s only single was titled “Dark the Hellish Angels Sing” [B-EVR]

• Dark Forces, the: The living embodiment of Rimmer’s negative personality traits, including Misery, Self-Despair and Paranoia, made flesh on a psi-moon configured according to his psyche After Rimmer’s shipmates rescued him from the moon, the Dark Forces abducted Self-Esteem to lure his comrades—Charity, Courage and Honour—into a trap, then unleashed a secret weapon: the image of Rimmer’s mother [M-SMG2.7(c2)]

• Darkness at Noon: A film that Rimmer imagined while trapped in an addictive version of Better Than Life The movie, made sometime around three million A D , starred sex-symbol actor Juanita Chicata, whom Rimmer married in the illusion after returning to Earth Upon winning her first Oscar for the role, Chicata thanked him during a twenty-five-minute acceptance speech [N-INF]

NOTE: The film may have been an adaptation of Arthur Koestler’s same-named novel.

• Dark One, The: The ruler of a psi-moon formed from Rimmer’s mind The moon, able to detect Arnold’s neurosis, restructured itself as a desolate, gloomy, swamp-filled wasteland inhabited by manifestations of his negative attributes The Dark One demanded Rimmer be sacrificed to the Unspeakable One [T-SER5.3]

• “Dark the Hellish Angels Sing”: The only single produced by the rock group The Dark, recorded in 2137 The song rose to only number forty-seven on the U S charts, despite staying at first place in Albania fourteen years running [B-EVR]

NOTE: This song’s title spoofed that of the Christmas carol “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.”

• Darren: A character on the television soap opera Androids In one episode, Darren attended a barbeque hosted by Daz, during which a family pet, Bouncer, was lost in a temporal-displacement vortex [M-SMG1.8(c2)]

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configuring itself as an exact duplicate of the mining vessel [M-SMG2.6(c1)]

• General A. J. Smegger: A nickname that Lister called Rimmer when the hologram became obsessed with squashing a skutter strike [M-SMG1.4(c1)]

• General Assembly 4: A meeting of executive personnel aboard Red Dwarf Rimmer ordered Holly to summon Lister to attend General Assembly 4 so he could conduct a roll call of the ship’s entire complement—despite all but one of them being dead [R-BOD]

• General Custer Forward Thinking Award: A hypothetical commendation that Rimmer pretended to award to Kochanski for her plan of attack at the Cyberia virtual-reality prison on Lotomi 5 The plan involved using the Oblivion virus to kill all electricity across the entire moon, enabling Lister to rescue his doppelgänger from the complex A side effect of the power outage, however, was that the gravity generator failed, making movement on the planetoid very difficult [N-LST]

NOTE: Cavalry officer General George Armstrong Custer launched his disastrous “Last Stand” against Native American forces in 1876, displaying a distinct lack of forward thinking.

• General George and the Gook Invasion: A book written by Colonel Mike O’Hagan, a Space Marine and author of the Space Corps Survival Manual [B-SUR]

NOTE: Given its title, this book was presumably about Major General George Patton IV, a prominent officer during the Vietnam War.

• generator: A component aboard Starbug 1 that produced power for the shuttle Jealous of Lister’s affection for Kochanski, Kryten overloaded the generator and emergency backup in order to prevent her from bathing in Dave’s quarters [T-SER7.4]

• Generosity: An aspect of Rimmer’s personality that a psi-moon detected as being essentially dead, prompting the planetoid to construct a metaphorical tombstone in its memory According to the stone’s inscription, his generosity died when he was nine years old [T-SER5.3]

• GeneStick pistol grip: A technology utilized in the handle of Nova auto pistols, produced by Bloodlust Arms [G-RPG]

• genetically augmented winged mutation (GAWM): A type of flying life form engineered in the universe known as Alternative 2X13/L [M-SMG2.1(c3)]

to Holman, the GELF population declared war on humanity Most GELFs died during the short conflict, with some going into hiding or starting resistance groups GELF-hunters were employed to root out and capture the remaining GELFs, who were exiled on the island of Zanzibar just prior to Earth being designated “Garbage World” [N-BTL]

• GELFWorld: A recreational tourist planet populated by Pleasure GELFs, a type of genetically engineered life form (GELF) created to provide companionship It included such areas as the Cuddly Animal Theme Park The planet’s facilities closed when a dissident named Drigg launched a GELF uprising, resulting in the slaughter or ousting of all tourists, and forcing Earth to quarantine GELFWorld The GELFs, unable to quell their thirst for violence, soon turned against each other, launching a GELF War that culminated in the planet’s destruction [M-SMG2.2(c4)]

• GELF Zone: An area of space inhabited by several GELF tribes and marked with a GELF icon—a huge rock carved to resemble a GELF skull An attacking Space Corps enforcement vehicle, upon catching the Starbug 1 crew looting Space Corps derelicts, forced the shuttle to enter the GELF Zone, where they encountered a tribe of Kinitawowi GELFs [T-SER6.4]

• Gemini 12: A Space Corps TTX-3 experimental craft [G-SOR] containing a time drive developed in the twenty-eighth century [T-SER7.1] Its maiden voyage was to the twentieth century, where the crew contracted an influenza virus and died In their final moments, the crew set the autopilot for deep space and laid a reality minefield around the vessel to discourage looters Years later, the Starbug 1 crew found Gemini 12 and stripped out the drive, installing it aboard their own shuttle [T-SER6.6]

NOTE: Although it had appeared in episode 6.6 (“Out of Time”), Gemini 12 was not actually named until episode 7.1 (“Tikka to Ride”).

• Gendarme of St. Tropez: See Captain Emerald

• Genepool Biotech Corp BioSafe Genetic Waste Pod: A small capsule for disposing of hazardous biological specimens [G-SOR] One such pod was used to contain two polymorphs, emitting a warning transmission with the words “Danger,” “Genetic Waste,” “Do Not Open” and “Contents: 2” prominently written on its casing During transit through deep space, this capsule became compromised, allowing its occupants to escape aboard Red Dwarf. One polymorph attacked the crew, consuming their emotions until it was killed by heat-seeking bazookoid missiles [T-SER3.3] The other polymorph escaped detection, eventually leaving the ship and

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aboutthe author

abouthasslein books

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of his theories

In addition to the Red Dwarf Encyclopedia, the company’s lineup of unauthorized

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Chronology, Lexicon of the Planet of the Apes: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia,

A Matter of Time: The Unauthorized Back to the Future Lexicon, Back in Time:

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