What’s the good thing about falling in love with a TV show based on a book? You immediately have more content to consume without having to wait around for another season! Good Omens fans know this all too well.
Those who got hooked on the eccentric and imaginative Good Omens universe via the hit Prime Video series of the same name are likely on cloud nine following the announcement of a third season. Of course, the show’s return to our screens is likely a ways away, however. Luckily, the excellent source material from the late Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (also EP of the series) is sitting right there.
But with season 3 confirmed to be the last, meaning the TV show has the shape of a perfectly formed trilogy, it begs the question: How many books are there in the Good Omens series?
What is the total number of Good Omens books?
Back in 1990, when Gaiman’s comic book magnum opus The Sandman was only a year in and the much-missed Pratchett was already 10 books into his epic Discworld universe, the novice writer joined forces with the veteran to pen Good Omens, retroactively giving us a collaboration between two giants of the fantasy genre. Sadly, however, that was the only book the pair ever published together.
Since the first book was released, both Pratchett and Gaiman’s careers kept them increasingly busy with their own independent projects. For starters, Gaiman lived in the U.S. as Pratchett resided in the U.K. As The Guardian explained, they just never had the opportunity to set aside the time to pen the sequel before Pratchett died in 2015.
However, the pair had laid out the blueprints for a sequel, one they “fully intended to write,” according to a blog post by Gaiman on his website. While there remains only a single Good Omens novel, the existence of seasons 2 and 3 of the TV series has allowed Gaiman to finally bring his and Pratchett’s blueprints for the further adventures of Aziraphale and Crowley to life.
