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 Contents

Acknowledgments

In the Beginning: Nice and Accurate Analyses of Good Omens

Erin Giannini and Amanda Taylor

Good Omens and Adaptation

Avoiding a Contemporary Apocalypse: Examining the Effects of Shifting Good Omens from Its Cold War Context

Rhian Waller

God Is a Woman: Good Omens, Voice-Over, and the Female Gaze

Julia Vanessa Pauss

Ways of Mourning: Reading Grief as Friendship in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens (1990)

Pavan Mano

Good Omens and Fan Culture

"Okay, Crowley, Junior": Subversions and Transformations of Good Omens in Supernatural and Its Fandom

Cait Coker

Fan Desire and Normative Masculinities in Good Omens Gift Exchanges

Mary Ingram-Waters

The Theology of Good Omens

"In the beginning, it was a nice day": Aziraphale and the Subversive Miltonian Angelology of Good Omens

Melissa D. Aaron

Eschatological Ambiguity in Good Omens: How Concerns for Survival Blur the Lines Between Good and Evil

Morgan Shipley

Sola Fide: Ineffability, Good Omens, and the Reformation

Philip Goldfarb Styrt

"This Angel, who is now become a Devil, is my particular friend": Romantic Satanism and Loving Opposition in Good Omens (2019)

Alex Tankard

Naming, Artifacts, and Texts in Good Omens

Adam's Task: Naming and ­Sub-creation in Good Omens

Janet Brennan Croft

The Book as Character: Tracing Textual Elements of Good Omens Across the Novel and Miniseries

Tara Prescott-Johnson

"Welcome to the end times": A Conclusion

Amanda Taylor and Erin Giannini

About the Contributors

Index