A book occurs as comedy, concerning a birth of the boy of Satan, the coming of the End Times and the tries of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to avert them, with turn into habitual to their comfortable postings in the human being globe. a subplot features the gathering of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse — War, Famine, Pollution (Pestilence having retired upon a invention of penicillin), & Demise — the endure of whom is characterized inside a manner remindful of the personification of Death in Pratchett's Discworld novels and calls himself Azrael before his final exit.

When Pratchett & Gaiman were residing within different countries at a instance, & when a writing of the book predated far flung apply of the Internet, a collaboration took place largely above a telephone, by owning Pratchett (a supplementary experient novelist) doing the majority of the actual writing.

Quotes

--"Have a nice doomesday."

--"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."

--"Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole."

--"'?' he said."

--"Voodoun is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead"

--"'You're Hells Angels, then? What chapter are you from?' - 'REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.'"

--"It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but there's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is complete and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime."

--"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."

--Aziraphale was the number one angel ever to have a computer. It wwhen the inexpensive, slow, plasticky of these, very much touted as ideal for the microscopic man of affairs. Aziraphale utilized it religiously for doing his accounts, which were and so religiously precise that a revenue enhancement authorities experienced inspected him 5 days in the deep belief that he was inducing away by having execution someplace.

--"Hoor of Babylon!"-Shadwell

--"Crowly, An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards."

Film version
The film was in the works, under the counsel of Terry Gilliam. Johnny Depp and Robin Williams were set to work inside it, however a task was canceled due to deficiency of funding [http://film.guardian.co.uk/cannes2005/story/0,15927,1485600,00.html]. Gilliam however hopes to produce a film.

A tedious history of this design & similar lives sustaining projected films of various of Gaiman's more works (including The Sandman series) have led to his misanthropical review of the Hollywood process, a watch which from time to time shells around his weblog [http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp] and in a bit of of his short fiction.

Translations
Dobrá znamení (Czech) Hoge Prognostic (Dutch) Head ended (Estonian) Hyviä enteitä (Finnish) De bons présages () Ein gutes Portent (German) Elveszett Próféciák (Hungarian) Dobry Prodigy (Polish) BelWhen Maldições: As Belas e Precisas Profecias diamond state Agnes Nutter, Bruxa (Brazilian Portuguese) Buenos Presagios (Spanish) Goda Prognostic (Swedish)