A NewGood OmensAudiobook Has Nabbed Your Favorite Crowley and Aziraphale

Okay , it ’s not intelligence about thesecond seasonof the AmazonTV series , but it ’s passably damn good news anyway . Doctor Who’sDavid Tennantwill voice the ogre Crowley while The honest Fight’sMichael Sheenwill voice the angel Aziraphale in an all - new recording of Terry Pratchett andNeil Gaiman ’s apocalyptic dark comedy Good Omens .

Consider it a methadone germinate to surge us over while we hold back for the heroin injection of Good Omens time of year two ( whenever that happens ) . Tennant and Sheen were marvelous individually and especially marvelous together in the original series as professional enemy - turned - tight friend who both did n’t specially need to watch out the world end , despite God ’s “ ineffable ” plan and the arrival of the Antichrist . In fact , Amazon really knocked the Good Omens adaptation out of the park with help from Gaiman , who write a great raft of the series .

I assume , if you ’re reading io9 , that you ’ve either read the ledger or watched the TV series ( most potential both ) . If for some reason you have n’t , the book ’s synopsis should convert you instantly : “ According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter , Witch ( the world ’s only totally accurate Scripture of prophecies , written in 1655 , before she exploded ) , the world will terminate on a Saturday . Next Saturday , in fact . Just before dinner . So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing , Atlantis is rising , frogs are falling , tempers are flaring . Everything is likely start according to Divine Plan . Except a moderately grumpy saint and a fast - living demon — both of whom have live amongst Earth ’s soul since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the modus vivendi — are not actually looking forwards to the coming Rapture . And someone seems to have mislay the Antichrist … ”

It’ll be a while before you can see them again, but at least you can hear them.

It’ll be a while before you can see them again, but at least you can hear them.Image: Amazon Studios

Of course , not all of the television set miniseries ’ star - constellate mould will give to vocalise their characters , which should n’t be surprising give that Jon Hamm , Frances McDormand , Michael McKean , Brian Cox , Nick Offerman , and more were part of the show . Instead , the audiobook star Black Mirror ’s Katherine Kingsley as the beldam Anathema machine , Legends of Tomorrow ’s Arthur Darvill as the Witchfinder Private Newton Pulsifer , Peter Forbes as the Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell , Gabrielle Glaister as the seventeenth - century enchantress and prophet Agnes Nutter , and Louis Davidson as Adam the immature Antichrist , as well as Pixie Davis , Chris Nelson , Ferdinand Frisby Williams , Adjoa Andoh , Allan Corduner , Kobna Holdbrook - Smith , Josh Hopkins , Lorelei King , Matt Reeves , and Lemn Sissay . Actress and comic Rebecca Front will be the Bible ’s narrator .

The audiobook will be useable from HarperCollins on November 2 for $ 28.99 . It will be useable on Audible , the Barnes & Noble app , and more .

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