The human race began as slime and ended as slime. His name was Lister. Celebrating his 24th birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London, he ended up 3 million years from Earth, marooned in the wrong plane of the wrong dimension of the wrong reality, and down to his last 2 cigarettes... Together with a dead man, a senile computer, a deranged sanitation mechanoid with an overactive guilt chip and the best-dressed entity in all six known universes, the last remaining member of the human race begins his epic journey home. A journey that will take him 2 lifetimes. On the way he'll break the Light Barrier... meet Einstein, God and Elvis... shoot pool with planets... battle emotion-stealing chameleonic mutant parasites... and play Reality's ulimate game...