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 The Terror - Dan Simmons
Newest Review: ... to be made! So begins Dan Simmons' latest chiller, The Terror based on the true life lost expedition by Sir John Franklin of ... more  ... which little trace was ever found. Based as much on fact as is humanely possible, the book is a detailed account of just what such an expedition must have entailed and the majority of the characters are real crew members who were lost never to return. Of course, the creation of a monster hunting them across the ice is entirely fictional, but it only adds to the heightened sense of imagined horror and builds the level of suspense, that is carried throughout the whole of the novel, ever higher.
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The Terror - Dan Simmons: There's something out there... and theres nowhere for you to ... (735 words)
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It is 1847; Captain Francis Crozier, master of the vessel known as The Terror, is part of an expedition lead by Sir John Franklin that left in 1845 to discover the North-West Passage through the Arctic Circle and into Canada. But both ships that make up the expedition have become trapped in the ice several miles apart, The Terror and the Erebus both, and food is slowly becoming in short supply. As is coal to heat the ships and provide hot water. This is their second winter stuck in the middle of god-for-saken nowhere and now something has begun to hunt them; emerging from out the snow and ice blizzards to take them out one man at a time leaving bodies in it's wake, ... Read the complete review
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