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What book is that? The account I'd seen is basically the same as what's quoted in the Wikipedia article, about concurrent creation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

What book is that? The account I'd seen is basically the same as what's quoted in the Wikipedia article, about concurrent creation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens#Development

thaumasiotes 5y ago
Sourcery.
- majormajor 5y ago
  Huh. Agree to disagree on that one. They both have horsemen, and Death feels like the same Death, but beyond that I wouldn't connect the two much at all. Adam/Anathema/Crowley/Azariphale all have very different stories than the ones around Coin/Rincewind/Conina. Very different apocalypses.
- gerdesj 5y ago
  Sourcery is about a power beyond the world taking itself off the world. Literally someone realising: "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" and taking themselves outside the universe for a good telling off. The sourceror turned out to be a girl but whatevs (7th son of a 7th son etc). She nearly caused a bit of a wobble in a universe already a Rizzla paper thickness away from some distressing oddness. However, the potential cause never wanted and eventually averts things going totally Pete. Good Omens is a damn fine spin on the Christian apocalypse as described in quite some detail in John. There is the full on Angel vs Demon thing with a bloody great Hell Hound. Anyone who knows Jack Russells knows that they have a roughly 50/50 chance vs anything up to and including a nuclear weapon (which will either be shaken to death or sha ..... fzzzzt.) The Dog is almost certainly a JR. Anyway, I digress. There are clear similarities but distinct differences between the two books. Sourcery: One individual nearly caused armageddon but took themself away to avoid it Good Omens: The universe's squishy contents tried to destroy the whole material plane and tripped over its own shoelaces

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What book is that? The account I'd seen is basically the same as what's quoted in the Wikipedia article, about concurrent creation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

by majormajor 5y ago

thaumasiotes 5y ago
Sourcery.
- majormajor 5y ago
  Huh. Agree to disagree on that one. They both have horsemen, and Death feels like the same Death, but beyond that I wouldn't connect the two much at all. Adam/Anathema/Crowley/Azariphale all have very different stories than the ones around Coin/Rincewind/Conina. Very different apocalypses.
- gerdesj 5y ago
  Sourcery is about a power beyond the world taking itself off the world. Literally someone realising: "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" and taking themselves outside the universe for a good telling off. The sourceror turned out to be a girl but whatevs (7th son of a 7th son etc). She nearly caused a bit of a wobble in a universe already a Rizzla paper thickness away from some distressing oddness. However, the potential cause never wanted and eventually averts things going totally Pete. Good Omens is a damn fine spin on the Christian apocalypse as described in quite some detail in John. There is the full on Angel vs Demon thing with a bloody great Hell Hound. Anyone who knows Jack Russells knows that they have a roughly 50/50 chance vs anything up to and including a nuclear weapon (which will either be shaken to death or sha ..... fzzzzt.) The Dog is almost certainly a JR. Anyway, I digress. There are clear similarities but distinct differences between the two books. Sourcery: One individual nearly caused armageddon but took themself away to avoid it Good Omens: The universe's squishy contents tried to destroy the whole material plane and tripped over its own shoelaces