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BOOK PLOT INCONSISTENCIES PROJECT v.1.50

* BPIP -- Companion to the PIP *

Edited by Annette 'El Skutto' McIntosh (mcintosh@wehi.edu.au). Original concept by Damone.

%%     SPOILER WARNING:  This document contains *detailed* plot
%%     spoilers for Last Human.  Those who don't want to know,
%%     avoid section *2.3*, and also the last question of section
%%     2.2 (this has its own spoiler warning and is indicated by
%%     percent signs in the left margin).

NOTICE:  This document, its format, and all material contained 
herein are protected by public copyright, except where it conflicts 
with the copyright of Grant Naylor.  This document *may* be 
distributed freely in its entirety and posted at electronic sites 
where no fee is charged for its viewing.  It *may not* be sold or 
published for profit in any form.

BPIP Availability:

The BPIP is making its Web at

http://www.ftech.net/~cobweb/alt.tv.red-dwarf/

http://www.queeg.crater.com/

Also via FTP at

ftp://ftp.queeg.crater.com/pub/red-dwarf/general/

Alternatively, email me on mcintosh@wehi.edu.au and request a copy. It will be sent as text.

DO NOT ask Damone for the BPIP.

C O N T E N T S

Each minor section is divided by a line of: -

All new additions from last version are marked with a: *

0.5 Updates and New Stuff.

1.0 What is the Book Plot Inconsistencies Project (BPIP)?

2.0 What are the Book Plot Inconsistencies?

2.1 Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (IWCD)

2.2 Better Than Life (BTL)

2.3 Last Human (LH)

3.0 Additions, Corrections, or Contributions to BPIP.

4.0 Acknowledgements.

ABBREVIATIONS:

0.5 UPDATES AND NEW STUFF

Version 1.00:  The first version.  Born when Cma indicated it was 
	needed.  ;-)  Posted to group.
	(30 Dec. 1995 - 2 Jan. 1996)

Version 1.25:  Contributions from Max Kolombos and Raz (once known
	as The Inconsistency-Buster!).  Web availability for the
	BPIP courtesy of Friday, Michael Nagy, Dave Williamson.  
	Posted to group.
	(2 Jan. 1996 - 11 Feb. 1996)

Version 1.50:  No longer available on Dave Williamson's page due to
	the unfortunate demise of same.  Very minor updates.  Posted
	to group.
	(11 Feb. 1996 - 10 Apr. 1996)

1.0 WHAT IS THE BOOK PLOT INCONSISTENCIES PROJECT (BPIP)?

2.0 WHAT ARE THE BOOK PLOT INCONSISTENCIES?

No distinction will be made for things which may be printing errors; in these cases, such instances may have no explanation.

Things which will *not* qualify for the BPIP (unless part of a direct contradiction) include hypothetical questions, philosophical questions, speculation on how machinery/equipment works, speculation on what goes on that the novels do not cover, etc. Any 'BPI' that cannot be presented with at least two citation points in the novels probably will not qualify -- assumptions will be made to *explain* the BPIs only, not to *create* them.

The BPIP will be maintained in this way to stop it going the road of the PIP, in which speculative questions mean the document is essentially infinite. With direct contradictions only, the BPIP should be a limiting document and not turn into the monster that its parent has become!

The BPIs will be listed by novel, with part and chapter citations in the format (IWCD, 1:12) -- this means Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Part 1:Chapter 12. Each inconsistency will be listed, and if a resolution exists for it, it will be included below it.

2.1 INFINITY WELCOMES CAREFUL DRIVERS (IWCD)

- No explanation needed. This has been corrected in the RED DWARF OMNIBUS, where both instances say nine 'F's and two 'X's.

- Rimmer says he has been on RD for six years (1:12). Yet later, during his GS story (2:33), it is apparent that he had only been with the company for 18 months prior to the accident (refer also 1:15).

- If the JMC and the Space Corps are separate yet cooperative entities, then it is possible that Rimmer was on RD as part of the Space Corps but only joined the JMC at a later date.

- Rimmer's timetable is described as a 'three month revision timetable' (1:14), yet later when he reads it (1:15) it is a four/five month revision timetable -- August, September, September, October, November.

- It is just possible that the term 'three month' can refer to the length of time it can take Rimmer to actually make his timetable, and not necessarily to his *total* study time period.

- Red Dwarf's dimensions are given as three miles wide, four miles deep and six miles long (1:10). How then can the cargo hold contain 'hundreds of cubic miles of supplies' (2:5)?

- Red Dwarf is three miles wide and six miles long (1:10). How then can it have a 40 square mile cargo hold to support the 'sea of cats' (2:6)?

- If the cargo hold contains at least two decks, the total surface area can be 40 square miles.

- The future-echo old Lister (2:13) has a 'tattoo' on his arm of U = BIL. Shouldn't this be U = BTL, as this is what Kryten actually lasers into Lister's arm (3:3; 3:8)?

- The faded scar of the future-echo old Lister probably meant that the 'T' could be easily misinterpreted as an 'I.'

- It is stated and reiterated that the seven crew members in stasis didn't survive the Nova 5's crash (2:14), yet Rimmer later finds one of the stasis booth occupants alive, if not totally whole (2:19). If it were just a statement by Richards, the stasis readouts could have been malfunctioning or been misinterpreted, but the statement is also made as part of the narrative, ie. as a fact.

- Rimmer has nine year and 12 year long service medals (2:32), yet he had only been on RD six years (1:12) and with the JMC for 18 months (1:15; 2:33) prior to the accident.

- Rimmer may have been with the Space Corps for several years before he signed up with Red Dwarf, so the long service medals may be for the Space Corps rather than the RD or the JMC.

- Lister says that Rimmer has been torturing himself about GS for the last seven years (2:33), yet the soup incident only happened 13 months previous to Rimmer's death (1:15).

- Lister apparently knows that Rimmer was on Red Dwarf for over six years (1:12) prior to the accident. Lister may think that Rimmer also joined the JMC at around this time (see the second question of section 2.1 above), thus Lister could erroneously conclude that the soup incident did happen over six years ago.

- When Lister comes out of stasis (2:1), Holly comments that Lister is 24. Given that Lister arrived on Mimas sometime soon after celebrating his 24th birthday in October (1:3 corrected in the RED DWARF OMNIBUS), and the accident happened the following October 27th (1:15), Lister must have had a birthday just before the accident -- making him 25 when he went into stasis. And Holly does know Lister's 'birthdate' (1:9) so he should know Lister's correct age.

- This may be a lapse due to Holly's computer senility.

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2.2 BETTER THAN LIFE (BTL)

- The game is controlled by the psyches of its players, and the laws of reality do not apply. Therefore *no* contradictions need to be explained, as anything is possible in a fantasy world.

*- Holly at his peak had an IQ of 6000 (IWCD, 1:9) and this is also stated in BTL (1:8), where Holly's peak IQ is alternatively described as 'the IQ of 300 Einsteins'. This implies that Einstein had an IQ of only 20, which of course is rubbish.

- If Lister turned 23 just before coming to Mimas (IWCD, 1:3), and was 24 upon exiting stasis (IWCD, 2:1), then after almost two years in the Better Than Life game he can only be 26, not 27 as stated (2:4).

- No explanation needed. This has been corrected in the RED DWARF OMNIBUS where Lister celebrates his 24th, not 23rd birthday. Therefore the age 27 reference is correct but the age 24 reference is not (see the last question in section 2.1 above).

- Kryten and Rimmer take a total of 47 skutters with them to prime the RD engines (2:3). This total is up to 31 more skutters than remained after the Nova 5 was repaired, with there being initially a total of 96 skutters (IWCD, 2:25) before the Rimmers destroyed 'eighty-or-so' (IWCD, 2:30).

- There may be a skutter repair/construction facility on board the RD, which was operational at some point during the two years (1:16) that the crew were playing the Better Than Life game.

- Kryten and Rimmer take a total of 47 skutters with them to prime the RD engines (2:3). Rimmer then squashes to death 40, called half, of the skutters.

- Either somebody's mathematics is badly wrong, or a skutter repair/construction facility has churned out about 33 skutters within three weeks.

- Lister says that he lost his virginity at age 12 to Michelle Fisher on the Bootle Municipal Golf Course -- ninth hole, par four, dogleg to the right, in the bunker behind the green (2:6). It seems to be a *staggering* coincidence that he was 'taken advantage of' at a tender age by Susan Warrington, on the ninth hole (par four, dogleg) of the Bootle Municipal Golf Course (IWCD, 2:16).

- Lister doesn't actually say that he had sex with Susan Warrington, or how old he was, so maybe this encounter just gave him the idea of the golf course as a place to go ('It was just a place to go' -- 2:6), and he returned at a later date with Michelle Fisher and lost his virginity then. Of course, this means that Lister has had his 'lucky scoring underpants' (IWCD, 2:16) since around the time he was 12...nothing we couldn't believe about Lister!

- Talkie Toaster, repeating education from Holly, says that 'lightspeed is the speed limit for the universe' (3:3). Yet Holly knows that this is not the case, as the RD has travelled faster than light (IWCD, 2:9), and Holly also said that to escape a Black Hole, faster-than-light travel must be achieved (3:3). Is Holly contradicting himself?

- Holly knows that faster-than-light travel is possible -- his statement of lightspeed as the universe's speed limit is made simply so that he can explain the *theory* behind Black Holes to the Toaster.

- The RD's cargo bay doors are ripped off their hinges and sent spinning into space courtesy of blasts from the mining lasers (3:6). However, later (3:11), the bay doors are described as being merely open and damaged.

- It is possible that the doors in question are different doors, or it is a case of distinguishing between inner/outer doors, or even a matter of definition of what constitutes 'open' or 'damaged'.

- Blue Midget is shot off into space and apparently destroyed in an effort to eliminate the polymorph's remains; Starbug is destroyed on Garbage World, leaving the crew with only one transport craft (3:11). It is later stated (3:13) that the supplies are to be loaded onto BM, the 'one remaining shuttle craft.' The one remaining shuttle craft should be the White Giant.

- When Lister dies (3:20), Kryten, who could reasonably be expected to know these things, says the cause of death was a heart attack. Yet the remaining crew members ask themselves 'How did he die?' in the weeks following (3:19).

- Given that the other questions are of a 'pondering the waste of it' type, the 'How did he die?' question is probably more of a 'How could this have happened?' musing, rather than the literal question.

%%   SPOILER WARNING:  The explanation for the following question
%%   makes reference to the ending of *Last Human*.  Read at your
%%   own risk.
%%%%%
%  - What happened to the Nova 5?  Couldn't they have used it for
%  their evacuation of RD?  It was 'fuelled and ready to go' just
%  before they started playing the Better Than Life game (IWCD, 
%  2:31), and they were planning to leave on it and probably leave 
%  Holly to his fate anyway.
%	  - For some reason the Nova 5 apparently was not a viable
%  option for evacuation -- perhaps all the thorium had been 
%  converted to uranium 233 (IWCD, 2:24) which had decayed in 
%  the Nova 5 during the two years the crew were in the Better 
%  Than Life game (2:4), making the ship fuel-less until they did
%  some more thorium mining.  Or, perhaps the Nova 5 *was* in
%  take-off condition, and it might have been considered when
%  they finally did decide to evacuate Red Dwarf (2:4) after 
%  ascertaining that the Red Dwarf could not be saved (they may
%  have been attempting to make sure the RD was safe, though
%  lonely, before they left it; Lister and Cat may also have needed 
%  the time in the RD's Medical Unit before they were fit for travel 
%  in the Nova 5).  Trying to save the RD by playing planet pool (2:5)
%  then distracted them from their evacuation plans, and none
%  of the events that have happened since have allowed them the
%  time/opportunity to go back all together to the Nova 5.  At last 
%  count, the crew were on a planet in an unidentified reality, Red 
%  Dwarf-less (LH, 3:20).  Presumably, if they ever get back to Red 
%  Dwarf, the Nova 5 should still be in the cargo bay, ready or not 
%  to go or not as they wish. 

2.3 LAST HUMAN (LH)

- Rimmer is a Third Technician (3:17), whereas it has been said before that he is a First Technician (IWCD, 1:9).

- If Starbug was destroyed on Garbage World, and it was stated that only one shuttle craft was left -- the WG (BTL, 3:11), how can the crew now be travelling in SB again (2:1)?

- Perhaps the RD has a repair/construction facility to make new Starbugs.

- Kryten and Rimmer wouldn't age, but shouldn't Cat have gotten 36 years older while waiting for Lister and Kochanski to de-age?

- If (despite the temporal differences between realities) the Cat would have aged significantly while waiting for Lister and Kochanski, then he would have gone into stasis or Deep Sleep.

- Why did the crew need to undergo the 20 year Deep Sleep on the way back to RD (2:1)?

- The temporal anomalies caused by traversing the Omni- zone (eg. BTL, 3:6) must mean that time in the reality the Red Dwarf was left in moves at a rate such that the Red Dwarf's position is now up to twenty years of Starbug travel away, so the crew need to go into Deep Sleep. This means the position of the RD could be as much as 20 light years away (Starbug has to be able to travel at lightspeed in order to traverse the Omni-zone -- BTL, 3:5).

- It has been stated before (BTL, 3:3; BTL, 3:5) that for ships to traverse the Omni-zone, they must travel faster than light. Starbug obviously has this capability (2:1), so why is the lightspeed of Starbug not used in other instances; eg. to escape getting caught in the suction beam from Blerios 15 (2:3)?

- Lightspeed may take a good length of time to reach and come down from (this is possibly why the crew needed to be in Deep Sleep for 20 years -- 2:1), therefore the lightspeed capability is no good in this type of emergency situation (where Starbug was travelling relatively very slowly to begin with).

- Kochanski is a flight coordinator, first class (2:2), yet earlier she was called Third Console Officer (IWCD, 1:13).

- One may be a subsidiary of the other -- Third Console Officer may be a position on RD held by a flight coordinator.

- Kochanski was brought back to life on Backwards World (BTL, 4:4). Rimmer was upset to be dead (IWCD, 2:2), so couldn't the same have been done for him so he could be alive again?

- After his initial depression over his death, Rimmer seems to have reached an impasse in his feelings about his own dead state (2:2). The fact of his being dead gives him comfort in situations of danger where he's grateful that he can't be killed (BTL, 2:5). Perhaps during the initial depositing of the dead Kochanski and Lister on Backwards World, Rimmer may have considered the possibility of the same being done for him (and maybe again once he saw it had been successful), but once he got his hard-light body, which made him feel somewhat 'whole again' (2:2), he seemed to be satisfied to stay as a hologram.

- Lister and Kochanski spent 36 years growing young together on Backwards World (2:1; 2:11; also BTL, 4:4). However, on a couple of occasions it is said that Lister and Kochanski have spent the last half-century together (2:1; 2:2).

- These occasions may be counting the 20 years of Deep Sleep, and then rounding 56 years to a half-century approximation.

- The first of several references to 'Star Fleet' is made (2:1). Surely it should be 'Space Corps'?

- Star Fleet is probably an interchangeable name for the Space Corps, or one may be a subsidiary of the other. Also, it may in some instances be a term describing that particular organisation's headquarters.

- Rimmer is now a hard-light hologram and able to touch things. Yet on one occasion, both he and Kochanski behave as if he's still soft-light and intangible (during the discussion of fetching the MG and the lamps -- 2:2).

- Rimmer apparently *was* in his soft-light form at this time. Just after he is powered up, it is stated (2:1) that he is on battery backup -- he must be soft-light and intangible at the time that Kochanski makes such a statement. The first proof that Rimmer is in his hard-light, tangible form is when the crew land on Blerios 15 and are all 'bound...with a thick rope' by the Blerions (2:3) -- extra power supply for the hologram hard-light drive was probably salvaged from the derelict Starbug.

- Rimmer has failed the engineering exam 11 times (2:2). It has been stated previously (IWCD, 1:12) that it was the astronavigation exam that he made 11 unsuccessful attempts at.

- The terms may be able to be used interchangeably, as the scope of the exam may cover both fields. This is backed up by Rimmer's labelling of the exam also as astro-engineering (3:17).

- Lister takes the cigar from the lips of the head of Kryten from the derelict Starbug (2:2) -- a Kryten supposedly identical to the crew's Kryten. Yet it has been stated on several occasions (eg. IWCD, 2:16 and IWCD, 2:23) that the Kryten Series 4000 mechanoid has a lipless mouth.

- There are obvious differences between the two realities (eg. the Lister-doppelganger is evil, and Kochanski-doppelganger and Rimmer-doppelganger were the lovers). The precise anatomical detail of the Kryten Series 4000 mechanoid is apparently another, and more minor, difference between the two realities.

- Kryten is a Series 4000 mechanoid (2:5; also eg. BTL, 3:11), yet he is labelled on one occasion as a Series 3000 (2:2).

- Lister says he's a Pisces (2:7), meaning a birthday between February 20 and March 20. Lister's birthday is decided on as the 14th of October (IWCD, 1:7), making him a Libra (or a Scorpio if the zodiac shift -- IWCD, 1:4 -- is taken into account).

- There's nothing to say that Lister necessarily knows enough about astrology to even get his own star sign correct.

v - Kochanski says she and Lister rendezvoused on Backwards World with the rest of the Red Dwarf crew, on Lister's 24th birthday (2:11). The personal notice in the Backwards World newspaper (BTL, 4:4) is dated the 21st of some month, and tells Lister to make the rendezvous in 36 years' time (presumably the 21st of the same month). This wouldn't then be Lister's birthday, as his birthday has been nominated as the 14th, not 21st (IWCD, 1:7). Also, Lister was 61 years old when he died (BTL, 3:12), so after 36 years of de-aging, he would be 25 (as stated earlier -- 2:1), not 24.

- Kryten does not discover that 'Lister' is actually the Lister- doppelganger until he checks dental and scar records (3:6). When the Lister-doppelganger was rescued from Lotomi 5, leaving Lister behind (2:13; 2:14), the Starbug crew should have been able to tell immediately that the doppelganger was not their Lister. The doppelganger had been in Cyberia for four months (2:13), meaning that his head would have been bald or nearly -- standard fashion for the Cyberian inmates (1:2). The real Lister still had all his hair at this stage, his rasta plaits he'd had since age 17, which wouldn't be removed until his own term in Cyberia began some weeks later (1:2).

* - The Lister-doppelganger may have concocted a passably- believable story about why his hair was gone -- for instance, he may have said that the plaits were burnt off when he was 'pushed into the fire' (a possible four months' growth of hair in Cyberia may approximate to Lister's hair sans rasta, leaving only the lack of actual plaits to be explained away).

- Yvonne McGruder is referred to as a geo-mapper (3:17) when previously she has been called a flight technician (BTL, 2:6).

- One may be a subsidiary of the other.

- Rimmer says that Lister teased him about Yvonne McGruder, saying that she called Rimmer 'Simon' (3:8). Rimmer admits to himself that she called him 'Alan' (BTL, 2:6).

- Rimmer's low self-esteem might be playing tricks with his mind such that he cannot truly believe that Yvonne wanted him for himself -- especially in the light of how things with her panned out (3:8), seeming to confirm this. The actual name Alan/Simon is not important to him, just that he believes it could never have been 'Arnold.'

- Rimmer muses about his one sexual encounter with Yvonne McGruder (IWCD, 2:32; BTL, 2:6) which took place on the 16th of March. The affair is later described as occurring over 'one long glorious weekend' (2:9) -- it seems strange that they had sex only once during this time, especially given Yvonne's feelings for Rimmer (3:8). Also the 'March 16th' in question must have been March 16th in the year 2180, as this was the year Lister joined RD (he joined RD around March, approximately six months after his 24th birthday during October 2179 -- IWCD, 1:3 corrected in the RED DWARF OMNIBUS; IWCD, 1:7); yet this date will fall on a Thursday, not during a weekend.

- It is not impossible (though improbable), that for some reason or other the actual intercourse instances were restricted to one, leaving Rimmer and Yvonne to engage in other forms of 'glorious weekend' activities... As far as the day/date is concerned, there may be some changes/rearrangements in the 22nd century calendar (such that it is slightly different to the 20th century calendar) that means that March 16th 2180 may fall on a weekend.

- Yvonne McGruder became pregnant to Rimmer in March 2180 (see above) and left the ship when RD stopped at Miranda (3:16). Red Dwarf must have stopped at Miranda around about September 2180 (IWCD, 1:12; IWCD, 1:13), meaning that Yvonne must have been 6-7 months pregnant when she left the ship -- it's highly unlikely that she or others would not have known about her condition. Might not Rimmer have found out too?

- Given how desperately Yvonne wanted to be with Rimmer (3:8), the realisation that the affair *had* been real, and that Rimmer apparently wanted nothing more to do with her, must have hurt her. If she believed that there was no future for them together, she may have kept the pregnancy from him to save herself further humiliation and trouble.

- How could Red Dwarf's black box have ended up on Earth (3:1; 3:11) containing information not available until three million years hence? For example, Holly didn't create Rimmer's hologram immediately Lister exited stasis, but a few days after (IWCD, 2:1) with every indication that Rimmer's hologram had not existed previously, and no indication that Holly had planned this from the outset (IWCD, 2:2).

- The black box recording must have been made after Lister's exit from stasis, but apparently has travelled through some time anomaly (worm hole, swirly thing, whatever) to make it splash down on Earth three million years before it is due to be made. The recording is very incomplete, obviously missing such details as its three million years hence origin (else Michael McGruder, who even with his longevity could not expect to clock up the big 3,000,000, would not expect that he might possibly meet Rimmer one day -- 3:1), or that Rimmer was only a technician and not the great soldier Michael McGruder believed him to be (3:11).

- How can Michael McGruder (and even the GELFs, despite their longevity -- 2:4) be alive at the same time as the RD crew, when the Mayflower's journey (apparently taking upwards of 400,000 years, with its passengers in Deep Sleep most of the time -- 3:4) must still have ended with its entry into the Omni- zone hundreds of thousands of years before Lister came out of stasis?

- The Mayflower fell into a worm hole before it was sucked into the Omni-zone and ended up in the reality which came to support the GELF asteroid belt (3:4). Perhaps falling through the worm hole sent the Mayflower into the future near to the time when Lister came out of stasis. Alternatively, the effect may be that time in the GELF belt reality may be moving much more slowly relative to the Red Dwarf reality -- the Mayflower may have entered the GELF belt reality hundreds of thousands of years before Starbug did, but from the GELF reality point of view, it has been a *much* shorter time taken for the two ships' crews to meet.

- During 20 years of Deep Sleep, Starbug has traversed the Omni-zone (reaching lightspeed for the crossing -- eg. BTL, 3:3) and has slowed to a speed (2:1) enabling it to rendezvous with the derelict Starbug. However, 20 years seems excessive, given that Starbug (while in the GELF asteroid belt reality) never appears to be even a tenth this far from the Omni-zone (eg. 32 weeks' travel for Starbug from the lava planet to the Rage's planet -- 3:14).

- Starbug may be able to come down from lightspeed in much less time than it takes to power up to lightspeed, in which case the majority of the 20 year (Deep Sleep) journey may have been spent in the Backwards World reality, gathering speed for the Omni-zone crossing.

- The Lister-doppelganger killed the Kinitawowis before they got back to their own ship (3:18), which they had docked onto Starbug (3:6). There is no indication of the Kinitawowi ship disengaging from Starbug, but it does seem to have disappeared.

- Lister-doppelganger may have disengaged it to make it seem that the Kinitawowis had gone, in order that the others did not become suspicious and discover him before he was well enough to attack them. Alternatively, the Kinitawowi ship may have been lost in the crash on the lava planet (3:7), and the others were too busy with their problems with Starbug to notice that the ship didn't disengage in the standard way.

- Kochanski appears to have three vials of luck virus (3:20), yet there were only two (3:10).

- There *are* only two vials of luck virus, and one of quick- growing broccoli virus (the purpose of which is yet to come).

Kryten finds the first vial of luck virus (3:10), and Kochanski uses a minute dose from this first vial to find (amongst others) another vial of luck virus and the broccoli virus vial. Kochanski then apparently hangs the *first* vial of luck virus and the vial of broccoli virus (better keep *it* handy too as she doesn't know when she will need it) around her neck, and presumably puts the second vial of luck virus somewhere safe (maybe even in her bra). The first luck virus vial is cracked by the Longman-leopard (3:14). The crew then use this same vial of virus to work out the coordinates and means to find Lister, before Kochanski hangs the 'almost empty' vial back around her neck (3:14). It is this same vial that Kochanski later uses to prevent herself being shot, and that the Lister-doppelganger finally takes and crunches up to make the Rage choose him (3:18). The second, untouched vial of luck virus is the one that Kochanski finally takes out of her bra- cup for herself and Lister to drink (3:20).

3.0 ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS, OR CONTRIBUTIONS TO BPIP

Provide as much information as possible about the BPI -- I cannot include it if I cannot identify it.

%% Do not, repeat *NOT*, send *book* contributions to Damone. %%

Please consider the criteria for BPIP inclusion, detailed in section 2.0, before posting a contribution. I cannot afford to have my mailbox explode with instances that will not even qualify, and I intend to be strict with what can go in and what can't.

Names of contributors will be included in the Acknowledgements section.

Note that there are *no* book/series contradictions. For this reason also, the Red Dwarf Log No. 1996 is included in *neither* Project as it is essentially a companion book dealing with the television series, in which story continuity with either novels or series appears not to be regarded.

4.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

			*** Damone ***

Special thanks to:

	       *** Friday and Michael Nagy ***

CONTRIBUTORS...

Cma
Max Kolombos
"John Q. Public"
Raz
Jim Richards
Daniel Snyder
Dave Williamson
Jim Wraith

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