Good Omens

human …
    Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield. …
    . . . forever.

About the Authors

    T ERRY PRATCHETT is the internationally bestselling author of more than thirty books, including his phenomenally successful Discworld series. His young adult novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents won the Carnegie Medal, and Where’s My Cow ?, his Discworld book for “readers of all ages,” was a New York Times bestseller. Named an Officer of the British Empire “for services to literature,” Pratchett lives in England. (He has drunk enough banana daiquiris, thank you. It’s G & Ts from now on.)
    www.terrypratchettbooks.com
    N EIL G AIMAN is the critically acclaimed and award-winning creator of the Sandman series of graphic novels and author of the novels Anansi Boys, American Gods, Neverwhere, Stardust , and Coraline , the short fiction collections Fragile Things and Smoke and Mirrors , and the New York Times bestselling children’s books The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish and The Wolves in the Walls . Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States. (He is still 5’11” tall and continues to be partial to black T-shirts.)
    www.neilgaiman.com
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H EAVENLY P RAISE F OR

    Good Omens
    â€œFull-bore contemporary lunacy. A steamroller of silliness that made me giggle out loud.”
    â€” San Diego Union-Tribune
    â€œSomething like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins, and Don DeLillo had collaborated on the screenplay of a remake of the Jack Benny film The Horn Blows at Midnight . … It’s a wow. … It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick.”
    â€” Washington Post
    â€œIt reads like the Book of Revelation as penned by Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”
    â€” Phoenix New Times
    â€œTerrifically entertaining.”
    â€” Dayton Daily News
    â€œA direct descendant of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy .”
    â€” New York Times
    â€œOutrageous. … Good Omens shouldn’t be pegged into a category. It should just be enjoyed. … Read it for a riotous good laugh.”
    â€” Orlando Sentinel
    â€œThe Apocalypse has never been funnier.”
    â€”Clive Barker
    â€œWhat’s so funny about Armageddon? More than you’d think. … Good Omens has arrived just in time.”
    â€” Detroit Free Press
    D EVILISHLY G OOD R EVIEWS F OR T ERRY P RATCHETT  …
    â€œA master of laugh-out-loud fiction.”
    â€” Chicago Tribune
    â€œTerry Pratchett seems constitutionally unable to write a page without at least a twitch of the grin muscles. … [But] the notions Pratchett plays with are nae so narrow or nae so silly as your ordinary British farce.”
    â€” San Diego Union-Tribune
    â€œPratchett is well able to combine the hilarious with the topical, acerbic, and incisive.”
    â€” Toronto Star
    â€œA top-notch satirist.”
    â€” Denver Post
    â€œTerry Pratchett may still be pegged as a comic novelist, but … he’s a lot more. In his range of invented characters, his adroit storytelling, and his clear-eyed acceptance of humankind’s foibles, he reminds me of no one in English literature as much as Geoffrey Chaucer. No kidding.”
    â€” Washington Post Book World
    . . . AND N EIL G AIMAN
    â€œA writer imbued with rich storytelling qualities and a boundless imagination.”
    â€” St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    â€œNeil Gaiman is a writer to make readers rejoice.”
    â€” Minneapolis Star Tribune
    â€œGaiman is fast becoming one of the most important of modern writers.”
    â€” Denver Rocky Mountain News
    â€œGaiman is a trickster in the best sense of the word.”
    â€” Houston Chronicle
    â€œHe is a treasure house of story and we are lucky to have him.”
    â€”Stephen King
    â€œWhen you take the free-fall plunge into a Neil Gaiman book, anything can happen and anything invariably does.”
    â€” Entertainment Weekly

Facts
    GOOD OMENS, THE FACTS
(or, at least, lies that have been hallowed by time)
    Once upon a time Neil Gaiman wrote half a short story. He didn’t know how it ended. He sent it to Terry Pratchett, who didn’t know, either. But it festered away in Terry’s mind and he rang Neil about a year later and said: “I don’t