Good Omens is a book written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman! I haven’t read much else by Neil Gaiman, but if you’re familiar with Pterry’s writing style, Good Omens has a similar feel to it.
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world’s only completely
accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the
world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before
dinner.
So the armies of Good
and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers
are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan.
Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have
lived amongst Earth’s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather
fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming
Rapture.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…
It’s set in the 1990s, mostly in England, and is about the end of the world in the style of the biblical apocalypse.
The story centres around a kid named Adam (the misplaced antichrist) who has a gang of friends called the Them
Among other characters, there’s also the Four, uh, Bikers of the Apocalypse
As well as a witch, a couple of witch hunters, and a medium
And I will admit that the fandom, myself included, focuses a great deal on Crowley (a demon) and Aziraphale (an angel), who are horrible show-stealers.
The book manages to raise several good points about the nature of humanity while also being extremely funny, and I would heartily recommend it if it sounds like something you’d enjoy!
If you stopped tellin’ people it’s all sorted out after they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive. If I was in charge, I’d try makin’ people live a lot longer, like ole Methuselah. It’d be a lot more interestin’ and they might start thinkin’ about the sort of things they’re doing to all the enviroment and ecology, because they’ll still be around in a hundred years’ time.
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