Wigmore's installation, playfully renamed as Mind Control Tower, sees the timeworn defense system transformed with 'prayer flags' pieces of fabric draped around a building, inscribed with good omens in order to ward off evil spirits.
While the specifics of holiday feasts vary depending on family size or finances, it's common to find foods associated with superstition, like pancit long noodles are thought to herald long life and queso de bola, "ball of cheese". Round and wrapped in red wax, queso de bola is rife with good omens: round things symbolize money and red is a symbol of good luck.
It's struck me for some time that if you were to throw away the Discworld books, Pratchett's output would still be incredible – The Johnny Maxwell stories, the Nomes, The Long Earth series with Stephen Baxter, Good Omens with Neil Gaiman and loads more.
He has also been at work on an adaptation of his 1990 collaboration with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, for Amazon and the BBC, on which he is serving as showrunner.
King had liked Sandman and my novel with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, and he saw the madness, the long signing lines, all that, and his advice was this: "This is really great.
Gaiman also topped best-seller lists with his novels Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett, 1990), Neverwhere (1996), Stardust (1999; film 2007), and American Gods (2001) and with his children's book Coraline (2002; film 2009).
Subsequent to these, Pratchett has mostly concentrated on his Discworld series and novels for children, with two exceptions: Good Omens (1990), a collaboration with Neil Gaiman (which was nominated for both Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1991 ), a humorous story about the Apocalypse set on Earth, and Nation (2008), a book for young adults.
The novels also became creepier in the wake of his collaboration with Neil Gaiman on Good Omens.
The gaps widened as the game went on, leaving Emma Donoghue's Room with the wholly inappropriate extended knob-gag of "Sonnet 135", and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens with "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" No, I probably shan't.
But it's impossible to square those good omens with Around the Sun's subdued AOR.
When Sybil was ready to return to work, I prepared to leave, a little reluctantly but with a sense of good omens in the neighborhood.
