Grant Naylor

Grant Naylor is the joint pen name of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, under which the two wrote the Red Dwarf novels. Their books are science fiction adventures set in the Red Dwarf universe, including Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life, in which a slacker wakes millions of years in the future with only a hologram of a dead friend, a robot and a cat-descended creature for company. Rob Grant, an English comedy writer and co-creator of the Red Dwarf franchise, died in February 2026.