Armageddon's Children
- 404
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Armageddon’s Children” is an ambitious bridge between Terry Brooks’s “Word and Void” books and the Shannara saga. Opening a trilogy set in a ravaged world around 2100, it tells of the Great Wars the later Shannara novels keep looking back on. Some readers find the first two thirds crowded and disjointed before the story takes hold. Opinions differ on reading “Word and Void” first: some insist on it, others needed no background.
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About the book
Armageddon's Children is a fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks, the first in his trilogy The Genesis of Shannara, which bridges the events of Brooks' Word and Void trilogy with his Shannara series. It takes place in an apocalyptic world around the year 2100 and details the events during the Great Wars, a historical conflict referenced frequently in the Shannara books. It is followed by the novel The Elves of Cintra.
Reading order · Shannara
Full order & progress →- The Sword of ShannaraStart here
7.17.1 / 10 - The Elfstones of Shannara
7.77.7 / 10 - The Wishsong of Shannara
7.77.7 / 10 - The Scions of Shannara
7.97.9 / 10 - The Druid of Shannara
7.97.9 / 10 - The Elf Queen of Shannara
7.87.8 / 10 - The Talismans of Shannara
7.87.8 / 10 - Running with the Demon
7.87.8 / 10 - A Knight of the Word
7.97.9 / 10 - Angel Fire East
7.97.9 / 10 - Ilse Witch
7.87.8 / 10 - Antrax
7.97.9 / 10 - Morgawr
7.87.8 / 10 - Jarka Ruus
7.97.9 / 10 - Indomitable
–Not ranked yet - Tanequil
–Not ranked yet - Straken
–Not ranked yet - Armageddon's ChildrenThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - The Elves of Cintra
7.97.9 / 10 - The Gypsy Morph
7.97.9 / 10 - Bearers of the Black Staff
–Not ranked yet - The Measure of the Magic
–Not ranked yet - Wards of Faerie
–Not ranked yet - Bloodfire Quest
–Not ranked yet - Witch Wraith
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 59 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 29% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 8 | 14% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 51 | 86% |
Frequently asked
How long is Armageddon's Children?
It has 404 pages — shorter than 76% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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