InfluenceMEDIUM
Added by Media Influence Map · 16 September 2026

The influence
Discworld
Book · 1983

The work it shaped
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Book · 1990
Gaiman has been explicit that the finished voice of Good Omens is Pratchett's, and that Pratchett did the final assembly of the manuscript. The Discworld apparatus is all present: the footnote used as a second comic channel, an anthropomorphised Death who speaks in capitals, cosmic bureaucracy treated as an office problem, and a plot that arrives at decency by way of farce. Filed MEDIUM rather than HIGH because Pratchett is a co-author rather than an influence at arm's length. It is recorded because a reader tracing where the book's manner comes from is asking a real question, and Discworld is the honest answer.
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