Synopsis: The first lesson Lister learned about space travel was you should never try it. But Lister didn't have a choice. All he remembered was going on a birthday celebration pub crawl through London. When he came to his senses again, he was living in a locker on one of Saturn's moons, with nothing in his pockets but a passport in the name of Emily Berkenstein. So he did the only thing he could. Amazed to discover they would actually hire him, he joined the Space Corps - and found himself aboard 'Red Dwarf', a huge spaceship that, would get him eventually back to Earth. What Lister couldn't foresee was that he'd inadvertently signed up for a one-way jaunt three million years into the future - a future which would see him the last living member of the human race, with only a hologram crew mate and a highly evolved cat for company. (adapted from the back cover of the first US edition)