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Good Omens
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Published 10 May 1990
Publisher Gollancz
ISBN 057504800X
Pages
Series [[:Category:|]]
Main characters Aziraphale, Crowley, Anathema Device, Newton Pulsifer, Adam Young, Death, Famine, War, Pollution
Annotations Annotations for Good Omens
Notes Co-written with Neil Gaiman
All data relates to the UK hardback edition.

Blurb

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...

About the book

It is a comic novel about demons, angels, prophecies and Armageddon, in which a mix-up at a hospital causes the Antichrist to be brought up as a perfectly normal kid with bizarre consequences as he develops his special talents with neither demons nor angels for guidance.

Terry Gilliam would make a movie of this book if those with the money and inclination to make such a thing possible were not as rare as Klatchian Mist.

Annotations

The book satirizes some aspects of the 70's movie The Omen, where an American diplomat has Damien, the antichrist, for a child. Although Damien is dismissed as a name, and isn't the Antichrist anyway, he is raised by a supernatural nanny, and with a birthday party that gets out of hand.

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