Rob Grant

Rob Grant's novel, Colony.

Rob Grant is a British comedy writer. With Doug Naylor he worked on radio programs such as Cliché and Son of Cliché, and TV programs such as Spitting Image, Red Dwarf, The 10 Percenters and various Jasper Carrott projects.

Grant left Red Dwarf after the sixth series, saying he wished to "have more on my tombstone than Red Dwarf". He appeared in the episode "Backwards" as a man who unsmoked a cigarette. He has since written two TV series, Dark Ages and The Strangerers, and has written four solo books.

Some of his upcoming projects include Fat, a new novel and an animated series entitled Cruel Aliens.

Selected works by Rob Grant

• Red Dwarf (1989), with Doug Naylor. Published under the pseudonym Grant Naylor. Sometimes credited as Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers or just Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers.
• Better Than Life (1990), with Doug Naylor. Published under the pseudonym Grant Naylor.
• Son of Soup (1996) (with Doug Naylor)
• Scenes from the Dwarf (1996) (with Doug Naylor)
• Backwards (1996), a sequel to the last joint Red Dwarf book Better Than Life
• Colony (2000), which uses many of the same themes as Backwards.
• Incompetence (2003), a detective story set in the near future where incompetence is a way of life
• Fat (2006), a novel about how obesity can affect society. Publication date is September 21, 2006.