One half of the gestalt entity
Grant Naylor, which penned the first 6 series of
Red Dwarf for the
BBC, along with two books,
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and
Better Than Life.
Grant Naylor seperated in (about) 1997. Rob went on to write the intermittently funny fourth Red Dwarf book, Backwards; the rather poor-quality BBC sitcom The Dark Ages; the little-known sci-fi comedy The Strangerers (featuring some decidedly 1950s style aliens who come down to Earth); and his most recent, the Red Dwarf-like book Colony.
Funnier than Doug Naylor (the other half) and noticeably darker, Rob's stuff is usually well worth a look.