Good Omens

A comic apocalypse: the Antichrist has been misplaced in the English home counties, the prophecies of a seventeenth-century witch are coming true on schedule, and an angel and a demon who have both grown rather fond of Earth would prefer Armageddon not happen. Pratchett and Gaiman wrote it together in 1990; Gaiman later co-created the television adaptation.

Context: first of the four titles under the a16z list’s Gaiman author entry, in the Fantasy section. Their note on the entry is a caveat about separating art from artist, and recommends only some of the books; this is one of the four they kept.

Connections

• a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from; Fantasy section, Gaiman author entry.
• Neil Gaiman — co-author, and the name the list files this under.
• Terry Pratchett — the other co-author.
• Stardust — second of the four selected works.
• American Gods — third of the four.
• Anansi Boys — fourth of the four.
• a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates the list.