Buenos presagios neil gaiman biography
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Buenos presagios
This is actually a profound philosophical and theological treatise, exploring good and evil, nature versus nurture, free will, war, pollution, and organised religion. 😉
But it’s cleverly disguised as a madcap caper featuring angels, demons, the M25 motorway, Manchester, raining fish, dolphins, Atlantis, aliens, the Apocalypse, the young Antichrist, Americans, footnotes for Americans, tunnelling Tibetans, witches, witch-finders, whales, Hell's Angels, Queen and Freddie Mercury, junk food made of junk, nuclear power, a flaming car, satanic nuns, an inadvertent baby-swap, a book of prophecy, and more besides. Lots of ineffability, too.
The writing is so like Douglas Adams that it could be mistaken for a missing volume of Hitchhiker's, except for the pages of Just William slipped in, Calvino style.
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The Heavy Stuff
Inscription from Terry: “We made
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Good Omens: How Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote a book
In I wrote a book about Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the galax. By the end of it inom had learned that inom could write in a style inom thought of as Classic English Humour. Douglas had science fiction tied up, Terry had fantasy, but nobody was writing funny horror. And an exchange in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, combined with a late night viewing of The Omen and a love of Richmal Compton's immortal Just William stories, had put a story into my head, about a demonic baby-swap that goes wrong, in which the Antichrist grows up to be a nice kid, with a dog and a gang.
I wrote the first 5, words of William the Antichrist. It had a demon named Crawleigh. He drove a Citroen 2CV, and was ineffectual. Proper demons like Hastur and Ligur loathed him. It had a baby swap. I sent it to a few friends for feedback. Then my graphic novel Sandman happened, and it was almost a year later that the phone rang.
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Good Omens () (with Neil Gaiman)
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I originally blogged about Good Omens on my blog. The original post is still there. Time has passed and I have changed, both as a blogger and as a reader.
This collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman has led to a story that is funny, action-filled and philosophical. Both men seem to enjoy questioning the paradigms present in society at the time of whatever they are writing. Both Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett are exceedingly good as this type of authorship.
&#;Well, I had to,&#; said the angel, rubbing his hands distractedly. &#;They looked so cold, poor things, and she&#;s expecting already, and what with the vicious animals out there and the storm coming up I thought, well, where&#;s the harm, so I just said, look, if you come back there&#;s going to be an almighty row, but you might be needing this sword, so here it is, don&#;t bother to thank me, just do everyone a favor and don&#;t let the sun go down on