A Rose for Armageddon
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."