A Rose for Armageddon is a science fiction novel by American writer Hilbert Schenck, published in 1982.

It is the story of elderly scientists Elsa Adams and Jake Stinson, who study the history of a small island in New England.

[1] 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.

"[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.

"[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.