The Terror - Dan Simmons

. The Terror Dan Simmons I don't know about you but I do like reading fiction that combines a little bit of history in it. So it is with this book 'The Terror' by Dan Simmons. This novel is a fictional account of Sir John Franklin's expedition of discovery to the North Pacific in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. The HMS Terror and HMS Erebus had been to both poles in arduous missions where their reinforced hulls made them resistant to being crushed when trapped in winter sea ice. More interestingly, this story is about a real disaster. Not one member of that expedition came home alive ... more

The Terror is a novel by American author Dan Simmons and is set in and around the famous search for the North West passage by Sir John Franklin in 1846-1849. The real Franklin mission became legendary because the full facts of the mission are still unknown but the Royal Navy funded mission to find a path over the top of Canada to the Pacific ocean became a story of mystery and loss. Franklin sailed in 1846 and nothing was ever heard of again until his wife forced the Navy to send out a ship to search for her husband in 1850 but they failed to find Franklin or his ships. Franklin sailed with ... more