Good Omens
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea... People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it's only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons - well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel - would quite like the Rapture not to happen. Oh, and someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist...
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- Are you familiar with Pratchett & Gaiman's "Good Omens" (book and TV series)? It has a certain amount of that general spirit.
- Good Omens is hilarious, one of the few books I've read several times :-)
- I really enjoyed...
- "Good Omens" - A silly, fun read. I smiled from start to finish. A good companion book to "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff". If you wished The Hitchhiker's Guide wasn't so non-sequitur, you might like this.
- "Gay Berlin" - A fascinating look into the history of homosexuality in the city where the term and the concept took root. It was strongly recommended by a friend and justifiably so.
- "There is no antimemetics division" - How do you fight a threat that erases its own existence from people's minds?
- "What the mouse knows" and many other of Simon Sarris' essays. https://map.simonsarris.com/p/what-the-mouse-knows
- "The Jungle" - A story of abject poverty, of people who just can't seem to get out of it because of the crushing pressures of capitalism. Think Grapes of Wrath, but grittier.
- I like the idea of haiku error messages (as in Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett's Good Omens). "Site not found" becomes, with some LLM assistance:
Amidst cyberspace vast,
Site elusive, lost in void,
Unreachable code.
- Small Gods and Good Omens are the best starts; then, I'd hit up the Granny Weatherwax books, eg, Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, etc.
- If you want Pratchett and also Gaiman, then both Good Omens the book and Good Omens the TV version are fucking fantastic.
The Pratchett/Gaiman collab is one of my absolute favourites, I like it a lot more than Gaiman and Moore on Watchmen.
