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A Rose for Armageddon

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A Rose for Armageddon is a novel by Hilbert Schenck published in 1982.

Plot summary

A Rose for Armageddon is a novel in which elderly scientists Elsa Adams and Jake Stinson study the history of a small island in New England.[1]

Reception

Greg Costikyan reviewed A Rose for Armageddon in Ares Magazine #14 and commented that "Few writers [...] have the wit or the breadth of imagination to play with ideas on as grandiose a scale as Schenck. Despite his rationality – or, as I think he would maintain, because of it – Schenck remains a romantic."[1]

Dave Langford reviewed A Rose for Armageddon for White Dwarf #57, and stated that "the mystical turn of the final 24 pages is a surprise and delight after Schenck's underplayed but escalating evocations of doom. I don't believe a word of it after p 166, but recommend it just the same."[2]

Reviews

References

  1. ^ a b Costikyan, Greg (Spring 1983). "Books". Ares Magazine (14). TSR, Inc.: 48.
  2. ^ Langford, Dave (September 1984). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf (Issue 57). Games Workshop: 14. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)