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A Rose for Armageddon

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Wikipedia article


'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.

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."

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."

Colin Greenland reviewed 'A Rose for Armageddon' for 'Imagine' magazine, and stated that "The solution of the mystery twists all of space and time into a new and startling pattern."

Reviews



*Review by Faren Miller (1982) in Locus, #260 September 1982

*Review by Tom Easton (1983) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1983

*Review by Brian Stableford (1983) in Foundation, #28 July 1983

*Review by Mary Gentle (1984) in Interzone, #9 Autumn 1984, (1984)

References



Category:1982 novels

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