Deciphering Good Omens

Erin Giannini served as an editor and contributor at PopMatters, and has written numerous articles about topics from corporate culture in genre television to production-level shifts and their effects on television texts. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Amanda Taylor works at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research interests include Supernatural, Futurama, science fiction, and posthuman theory. She lives in Southern California.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIn the Beginning: Nice and Accurate Analyses of Good OmensErin Giannini and Amanda TaylorGood Omens and AdaptationAvoiding a Contemporary Apocalypse: Examining the Effects of Shifting Good Omens from Its Cold War ContextRhian WallerGod Is a Woman: Good Omens, Voice-Over, and the Female GazeJulia Vanessa PaussWays of Mourning: Reading Grief as Friendship in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens (1990)Pavan ManoGood Omens and Fan Culture“Okay, Crowley, Junior”: Subversions and Transformations of Good Omens in Supernatural and Its FandomCait CokerFan Desire and Normative Masculinities in Good Omens Gift ExchangesMary Ingram-WatersThe Theology of Good Omens“In the beginning, it was a nice day”: Aziraphale and the Subversive Miltonian Angelology of Good OmensMelissa D. AaronEschatological Ambiguity in Good Omens: How Concerns for Survival Blur the Lines Between Good and EvilMorgan ShipleySola Fide: Ineffability, Good Omens, and the ReformationPhilip Goldfarb Styrt“This Angel, who is now become a Devil, is my particular friend”: Romantic Satanism and Loving Opposition in Good Omens (2019)Alex TankardNaming, Artifacts, and Texts in Good OmensAdam’s Task: Naming and ­Sub-creation in Good OmensJanet Brennan CroftThe Book as Character: Tracing Textual Elements of Good Omens Across the Novel and MiniseriesTara Prescott-Johnson“Welcome to the end times”: A ConclusionAmanda Taylor and Erin GianniniAbout the ContributorsIndex