Genesis of Shannara · Book 1

Armageddon's Children

Published
1 January 2006
Pages
404
ISBN-13
9781423322559
Type
novel
Cover of Armageddon's Children

About this book

Armageddon's Children opened the trilogy in 2006 at 404 pages, introducing Hawk -- leader of the orphaned street children called the Ghosts in ruined Seattle around the year 2100 -- and the Knights of the Word sent to find him, Logan Tom and Angel Perez.

Key facts about Armageddon's Children

Armageddon's Children is a novel by Terry Brooks. Readers have had it since 2006. It runs to 404 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Armageddon's Children. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781423322559 to find the main one.

Armageddon's Children is book 1 of 3 in the Genesis of Shannara series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

Additionally, Terry Brooks writes The Original Shannara Trilogy, The Magic Kingdom of Landover and The Heritage of Shannara, plus 9 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy, fantasy and urban fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Brona is the latest published Terry Brooks book on file, from 25 August 2026.

About Terry Brooks

Terry Brooks is one of modern fantasy's most commercially important authors, best known for The Sword of Shannara (1977), which became the first work of fantasy fiction to appear on the New York Times bestseller list and proved, alongside Tolkien's continuing popularity, that there was a mass commercial audience for epic fantasy. See every Terry Brooks book in order.

Its place in Genesis of Shannara

Armageddon's Children is book 1 in the Genesis of Shannara series. It is followed by The Elves of Cintra. See the full Genesis of Shannara reading order.

Terry Brooks's Genesis of Shannara trilogy is the direct sequel to Word and Void and the missing link between that contemporary trilogy and the entire Shannara saga, opening around the year 2100 in a world devastated by nuclear war and plague. Armageddon's Children follows Hawk, leader of a group of orphaned street children called the Ghosts hiding out in ruined Seattle, who is secretly a gypsy morph -- a magical being of immense, unrealized power -- and the son of Nest Freemark, the Word and Void trilogy's…

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