ARMAGEDDON'S CHILDREN by Terry Brooks
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Armageddon’s Children begins a long-awaited new series that will bridge Terry Brooks’ urban fantasy trilogy, The Word and the Void, and his mega-popular Shannara saga. Turning his storytelling vision to the near-future and a once-familiar world spun shockingly out of control, Brooks draws from both bestselling stories to give readers a unique reading experience.
In the 22nd century, the world Logan Tom’s grandparents knew is lost forever. In the United States, as in the rest of the world, climatic change and nuclear war have rendered the land a desert. Plagues and poisons infect the air, soil and water. What little is left of technology cannot be replaced. Demons roam freely, seeking to exterminate or enslave the human race. And the few people who haven't been subverted into predatory once-men huddle in walled compounds. It is a world gone mad.
The Knights of the Word had tried valiantly to preserve the magic that bound all things in balance—magic which, from the beginning of time, the Word and the Void each sought to control. Now, the Void has tipped the balance. In his service to the Word, Logan Tom fights to halt the demon advance. But a great cataclysm is coming that will finish what the demons began, and humankind is doomed—unless Logan can find and protect a creature of enormous power: the gypsy morph. Trapped in the form of a child for eighty years, the gypsy morph will guide a small band of people to a new world, a place where humanity can rebuild itself. And the demons will do anything to destroy it or stop it from fulfilling its purpose.
Logan Tom fears he is the last Knight of the Word, but he is not. Angel Perez too has a crucial mission to fulfill. To escape the conflagration to come, a long-hidden enclave of Elves must recover a magical Elfstone called the Loden. Their path will be a long and difficult one, and only Angel can keep them safe—if she survives the fiendish enemy on her trail. Jacket art by TK. (Approx. 384 pp.) 2006.
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