A Rose for Armageddon
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| Author | Hilbert Schenck |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Timescape Books |
Publication date | 1 October 1982 |
| ISBN | 978-0671443115 |
A Rose for Armageddon is a science fiction novel by American writer Hilbert Schenck, published in 1982.
Plot summary
[edit]It is the story of elderly scientists Elsa Adams and Jake Stinson, who study the history of a small island in New England.[1]
Reception
[edit]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 the novel 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]
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."[3]
Reviews
[edit]- Review by Faren Miller (1982) in Locus, #260 September 1982[4]
- 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
[edit]- ^ a b Costikyan, Greg (Spring 1983). "Books". Ares Magazine (14). TSR, Inc.: 48.
- ^ Langford, Dave (September 1984). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 57. Games Workshop. p. 14.
- ^ Greenland, Colin (September 1984). "Fantasy Media". Imagine (review) (18). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd.: 47.
- ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?15126