3 Novels by Rob Grant
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Overview: Rob Grant was born in Salford. Determined not to let them hold him back he (after a protracted period doing any old thing) went on to co-create and write with Doug Naylor the astonishingly successful TV series RED DWARF. He also wrote the DARK AGES and STRANGERERS TV series.
Colony (2000)
The far future, deep space: the remnants of the human race are in trouble. They have decided that Dr Piers Morton is their last hope for rescue from a nasty, messy death. There is a problem though. Not only is Dr Morton not the man the crew of the Willflower think he is, but he isn’t even the man they have mistaken for Morton. That’s OK though, because his real identity is that of a total loser who was until recently trying to avoid being chucked out of a high window by a psychopath with terrible socks. So Eddie O’Hare was distinctly relieved to swap places with an important man on an amazing mission to colonize a far-off planet. Definitely an improvement on defenestration. Though perhaps not much of an improvement, given that Eddie has just woken up to find that he is now just a head in a jar attached to a malfunctioning robotic body, has misplaced several centuries, and is stuck on a huge, badly-damaged spaceship staffed by a collection of inbred madmen and idiot clones. Who are looking to him to save them and humanity itself . . .
Incompetence (2003)
Bad is the new good. In the not too distant future the European Union enacts its most far reaching human rights legislation ever. The incompetent have been persecuted for too long. After all it’s not their fault they can’t do it right, is it? So it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate against anyone for being incompetent. And now a murder has been committed and our possibly incompetent detective must find out who the murderer is. As long as he can find directions to get him through the mean streets.
Fat (2006)
Rob Grant’s new novel is a revelation. After INCOMPETENCE we would all have expected a killingly funny satire. And in its satire of our obsession with body image, of how the media makes us what we are FAT is certainly that. But in its depiction of Grenville, a fat man at his wits end with the need to be thin; of Hayleigh, a teenage girl obsessed with her terror of being fat and of Jeremy, the self-absorbed, self-adoring ‘conceptualist’ employed to promote the government’s new ‘Fat Farms’ Rob Grant has given us, yes a very, very funny book, but also an immensely moving and personal novel about how we all feel about our bodies. As Grenville deals with the humilation and daily indignity of being fat, as Hayleigh struggles to deal with her anorexia and as Jeremy comes to terms with the dangerous lies at the centre of the government’s new health regime FAT takes us on a hilarious and thought-provoking journey through our all-consuming obession with fat. This is a hilariously moving, movingly hilarious novel and marks a massive step-change in Rob Grant’s growth as a writer. Here is a hugely commerical new voice in mainstream, high concept, high in poly-saturates, commercial fiction. It’s also safe to say that with this new novel, he’s writing about what he knows …
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