Neil Gaiman is the bestselling author of more than twenty books and the recipient of numerous literary honors. 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.
[L]ittle asides, quirky observations, simple puns and parody eventually add up to snorts, chortles and outright laughs. --San Diego Union-Tribune A slapstick Apocalypse, a grinning grimoire, a comic Necronomicon, a hitchhiker's guide to the netherworld. --James Morrow, author of Only Begotten Daughter An utter delight--fresh, exciting, uproariously funny. --Poul Anderson Fiendishly funny. --New Orleans Times-Picayune From beginning to end, GOOD OMENS is side-splittingly funny . . . a ripping good time. --Rave Reviews Full-bore contemporary lunacy. A steamroller of silliness that made me giggle out loud. --San Diego Union-Tribune Hilarious! --Locus Huge fun. --Sunday Express (London) I whooped . . . I laughed . . . I was in near hysterics.: --New York Review of Science Fiction 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 One Hell of a funny book. --Gene Wolfe The Apocalypse has never been funnier. --Clive Barker What's so funny about Armageddon? More than you'd think . . . GOOD OMENS has arrived just in time. --Detroit Free Press Wacky and irreverent. --Booklist Hilariously naughty. --Kirkus Reviews Reads like the Book of Revelation, rewritten by Monty Python. --San Francisco Chronicle Something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. --Washington Post Outrageous . . . read it for a riotous good laugh! --Orlando Sentinel Irreverently funny and unexpectedly wise . . . Highly recommended. --Library Journal A direct descendant of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. --New York Times