Because of this, Crowley is distraught when he receives word that Armageddon (the end of the world, which will user in a war between Heaven and Hell) is upon them. Crowley thinks it’s silly that God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden for eating from the Tree of Knowledge-and Aziraphale, being thoughtful and generous, admits that he gave his flaming sword to Adam and Eve so they can protect themselves.Īfter this, Crowley and Aziraphale spend the next 6,000 years on Earth and come to love it. Read the rest of Terry’s tale on the Gollancz blog.The demon serpent Crowley and the angel Aziraphale sit outside of the Eastern Gate. This is an extract from the hardback edition of Good Omens, published by Gollancz. Or the time when we were in a bar and he met the Spider Women. Hey, let me tell you about the weirdness, like when he was staying with us for the editing and we heard a noise and went into his room and two of our white doves had got in and couldn’t get out they were panicking around the room and Neil was waking up in a storm of snowy white feathers saying ‘Wstfgl?,’ which is his normal ante-meridian vocabulary. But, as it turned out, we got a lot of money.
It was done by two guys who didn’t have anything to lose by having fun. We stayed in contact.Īnd one thing led to another, and he became big in graphic novels, and Discworld took off, and one day he sent me about six pages of a short story and said he didn’t know how it continued, and I didn’t either, and about a year later I took it out of the drawer and did see what happened next, even if I couldn’t see how it all ended yet, and we wrote it together and that was Good Omens. Hard to say why, but at bottom was a shared delight and amazement at the sheer strangeness of the universe, in stories, in obscure details, in strange old books in unregarded bookshops. Who knows what will happen if you try it on?Īnyway, we got on fine. I put this in for the serious fans out there: If you search really, really hard, you may find a small restaurant somewhere in London with a dusty grey homburg at the back of a shelf. As if subconsciously aware of the bad hatitude, he used to forget it and leave it behind in restaurants. That was the first and last time I saw the hat. There was no natural unity between hat and man.
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