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The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons. It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to locate the Northwest Passage.
8 de jan. de 2007 · Dan Simmons. The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth.
The men on board the HMS Terror -- part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage -- are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness.
1 de jan. de 2009 · The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth.
A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis. When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead the remaining crew on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice.
- Dan Simmons
9 de out. de 2008 · The Terror: A Novel. Dan Simmons. Baker & Taylor, CATS, Oct 9, 2008 - Fiction - 771 pages. Captain Crozier must find a way for his crew to survive the deadly attacks of a sea monster, in a...
10 de mai. de 2014 · Dan Simmons. Little, Brown and Company, May 10, 2014 - Northwest Passage - 507 pages. "Dan Simmons writes with the salty grace and precision of Patrick O'Brian. But in piling supernatural nightmare...
1 de jul. de 2010 · The Terror is a tour de force. KEN McGOOGAN, author of Lady Franklin's Revenge. Simmons has created a chilling supernatural novel . . . the horrific trials of their impending icy deaths are vividly brought to life. DAILY EXPRESS. Go out and buy this book . . . a fantastic achievement. Gripping, well-observed, and at times genuinely ...
Francis Crozier, his second in command and captain of the Terror, is a competent sailor, but embittered after years of seeing lesser men with better connections given preferment over him. With...
In The Terror, Dan Simmons recounts what might have happened to the men of Erebus and The Terror. We follow several characters, from chapter to chapter, often returning to one or two players, Sir Francis Crozier, Captain of The Terror, in particular.
- Dan Simmons
