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Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

This could easily be considered Terry Pratchett's forgotten masterpiece. A collaboration between the Discworld meister and a UK author best known for his sadly underrated TV fantasy series Underworld, it's a delightful book.

Pratchett brings his rich comedy and effortless timing to the book, while Gaiman contributes an altogether darker feel, and an ability to blend the real world and fantasy with eloquence. This combination of humour, fantasy and the real world inevitably makes for comparison with Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books - the combination here is rather less strange, but decidedly more funny.

To quote the blurb 'According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...'

Human characters intermingle with angels and demons (themselves endowed with decidedly human qualities after a few thousand years lurking around on earth) in a little tussle over just whether or not it really is time for the end of time.

There's a bizarre coincidence in that this comedy about Armageddon has Elvis turning up (making burgers), while Robert Rankin's altogether wilder comedy about the end times, Armageddon, the Musical, also features Elvis, though in Rankin's case as a major protagonist. I couldn't help sneaking a look at the copyright dates to see whether Rankin cribbed off this pair or vv. In fact, both were published in 1990, so either they talked to each other, or it's a happy coincidence.

My only quibble is over the middle sections where Pratchett & Gaiman make the young potential Antichrist and his friends into a pastiche of the inimitable Just William books. No one can do it like Richmal Crompton did (duhh, that's why they're inimitable), so the result is occasionally irritating.

Even so, overall this book is funnier than it has any right to be - brilliant.

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