Good Omens

A television series based on the book was produced by Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen as the main characters. Neil Gaiman was heavily involved in its development and served as a showrunner.

While it is a standalone story, the book shares thematic elements and a similar comedic tone with other works by both authors. It is not part of Pratchett's Discworld series or Gaiman's Sandman universe.

Pratchett and Gaiman have both said their collaboration was so intertwined that by the end neither could reliably identify who had written which sections. Gaiman said Crowley was based on Pratchett himself; Pratchett said Crowley was based on Gaiman. The first draft was completed in nine weeks.

The novel tells a complete story with a definitive ending, making it fully enjoyable as a standalone work. Readers do not need to read any other books to understand or appreciate its plot.

First published on 10 May 1990 by Gollancz. It has been in print continuously since and was adapted into a television series for Amazon Prime Video in 2019, with Neil Gaiman as showrunner.

No. Good Omens is a standalone collaborative novel set in contemporary England with no Discworld characters or cosmology.

Neil Gaiman began with a concept he titled 'William the Antichrist' in 1987 — an Antichrist raised as an ordinary English boy, inspired by Richmal Crompton's Just William stories. When Pratchett saw the first 5,000 words, he asked to collaborate rather than acquire the idea outright.

Agnes Nutter was a 17th-century prophetess whose book of prophecies is the only completely accurate one ever published — which meant it was entirely unsalable because nobody wanted to read what was actually going to happen. The book and its descendants drive the plot.