There are 4 books, and yeah, they're good. A bit darker than the show, but still comedy.
It starts with Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, which is Episodes one and two? Of the show.. maybe some more thrown in... It actually starts with Lister on Earth and tells how he ended up on the Dwarf. He got drunk and doesn't quite remember signing on.
Better than Life and Backwards were both single episodes... But of course expanded for book form.
I don't remember reading The Last Human...
Anyway, they're a bit hard to find, and certainly not in ebook format.
Fun fact, the full crew got together last year to film another three episode special. No idea when it will air
There are actually a few books based on the series, written by by the series show runners.
Lister does end up as a human puddle for a time. Which is why Holly brings Rimmer back as a hologram. The one person who can drive Lister insane enough to keep going.
The show sort of touches on this, but the books make it quite clear that Holly could have brought anyone back, and specifically chose Rimmer.
Honestly, the orange soda that we think of might be Crush, which debuted in 1911.
Tang would also like a word.
But really, the most popular orange based drink, is just orange juice. That or Mountain Dew, which is lemon, lime, and orange plus lots of sugar and caffeine.
Companies open subdivisions in other countries. These subdivisions are often responsible for full operations in that country.
Coca-Cola opened a subsidiary in Germany sometime after the end of the first world war. (My Google fu has failed me)
The main company stopped sending syrup to Germany after 1939 or so, but didn't close it's German subdivision. The German plant manager then created Fanta out of ingredients that were available to Germany during the war.
And then after WW2 ended, the main Coca-Cola company regained control of their German subdivision, and adopted Fanta as a brand.
As a note here, Coke was one of a bunch of American companies that were extremely friendly with the Nazis.
It's the bridge too far scenario. If this little shit head had joined the police department and then shot a bunch of people, the right would cheer, because that's how things work in their mind.
But becoming a rouge element and shooting random people... No that's just murder.
I'm sure there's a better way to phrase it, but I'm at the tail.end of a nasty cold and can't think straight.
The "refuses to elaborate" is simple, Mathew 25 31-46.
It quite clearly says that you are to welcome the immigrant, feed the poor, care for the sick, and visit the prisoners.
Failure to do any of that is a straight shot to hell, no matter how much you claim to love god, you actually have to do the work, or it's off to hell.
Fun fact, Mathew 25 is the only place in the bible that references sending ordinary people to hell. All that fire and brimstone, it's actually in that one passage. Nowhere else does hell show up for normal people, just fallen angles and shit.
It was one of the reasons I switched. That and my favorite mod manager is working on a Linux native version. It's not done yet, but it's good to play other games from time to time.
Valheim is pretty brutal, but also highly moddable.
There was actually an early sect of Christians called the Gnostics. That was sort of their whole thing.
A core belief was that everyone was the child of God, and thus, was God.
They also believed that Jesus asked Judas to go to the Romans.
The early church wiped them out to the last, and we only know what we do thanks to some sparse records and modern archeology.