The Terror
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From Amazon: 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. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape.
The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as "a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.
My thoughts: I don't know what I was expecting but I certainly didn't expect what I got. The Terror takes an historical event, the disappearance of Erebus and Terror, and provides what is mostly a pretty good idea explanation of what may have happened to their crews. But that's not all... a strong supernatural element is added. This book is an imaginative retelling of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The ships are frozen in place, the chance of rescue less and less likely, the supplies are toxic and dwindling, and there's something out on the ice that is literally clawing its way into the ships and presumably feeding on the crew it manages to abduct. It's definitely a slow burn but, in my opinion, all the better for it. You feel cold when Simmons describes the harsh conditions and situations the characters find themselves in. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to sail through the ice and cold. This is the first book by Dan Simmons I have read. Someone gave me this book.
The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as "a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.
My thoughts: I don't know what I was expecting but I certainly didn't expect what I got. The Terror takes an historical event, the disappearance of Erebus and Terror, and provides what is mostly a pretty good idea explanation of what may have happened to their crews. But that's not all... a strong supernatural element is added. This book is an imaginative retelling of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The ships are frozen in place, the chance of rescue less and less likely, the supplies are toxic and dwindling, and there's something out on the ice that is literally clawing its way into the ships and presumably feeding on the crew it manages to abduct. It's definitely a slow burn but, in my opinion, all the better for it. You feel cold when Simmons describes the harsh conditions and situations the characters find themselves in. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to sail through the ice and cold. This is the first book by Dan Simmons I have read. Someone gave me this book.
