2008-01-21 Brilliant

A fantastic peice of science-fiction comedy that outshines Doug Naylor's "last Human" in every way. Very well written and has an intrigueing plot that, while it borrows its general situations from episodes from the series, does not spend its time rehashing the same plot twists and verbal interchanges. "last human" contained many conversations and jokes between characters that where merely carbon copies from the tv scripts, very lazy indeed. "Backwards", however, develops the basic ideas of several episodes and turns them into something new and wonderful. I have read this book at least five or six times since I first read it and i'm sure I will again. If you like Rob Grants humour then I would highly recommend his other book "incompetence". it is laugh out loud funny very very often. Great Book!