Neil Gaiman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including Norse Mythology, Neverwhere, and The Graveyard Book. Among his numerous literary awards are the Newbery and Carnegie medals, and the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner awards. Originally from England, he now lives in America. Sir Terry Pratchett was 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. His novels have sold more than seventy five million (give or take a few million) copies worldwide. Named an Officer of the British Empire for services to literature, Pratchett lived in England. He died in 2015 at the age of sixty-six.
What's so funny about Armageddon? More than you'd think . . . GOOD OMENS has arrived just in time. --Detroit Free Press A direct descendant of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. --New York Times Outrageous . . . read it for a riotous good laugh! --Orlando Sentinel A slapstick Apocalypse, a grinning grimoire, a comic Necronomicon, a hitchhiker's guide to the netherworld. --James Morrow, author of Only Begotten Daughter Hilarious! --Locus Irreverently funny and unexpectedly wise . . . Highly recommended. --Library Journal Something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. --Washington Post The Apocalypse has never been funnier. --Clive Barker Fiendishly funny. --New Orleans Times-Picayune From beginning to end, GOOD OMENS is side-splittingly funny . . . a ripping good time. --Rave Reviews If you've never read [GOOD OMENS], don't miss it now. Grade: A. --Rocky Mountain News It could be called The Hitchhiker's Guide to Armargeddon. --Palm Beach Post [L]ittle asides, quirky observations, simple puns and parody eventually add up to snorts, chortles and outright laughs. --San Diego Union-Tribune Full-bore contemporary lunacy. A steamroller of silliness that made me giggle out loud. --San Diego Union-Tribune An utter delight--fresh, exciting, uproariously funny. --Poul Anderson I whooped . . . I laughed . . . I was in near hysterics.: --New York Review of Science Fiction One Hell of a funny book. --Gene Wolfe Huge fun. --Sunday Express (London) Reads like the Book of Revelation, rewritten by Monty Python. --San Francisco Chronicle Wacky and irreverent. --Booklist Hilariously naughty. --Kirkus Reviews