Dan Simmons The Terror

[welsh]

Ok, so has anyone read it and is it any good?

The Terror

Says Publisher's Weekly-

Hugo-winner Simmons (Olympos) brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written historical, which injects a note of supernatural horror into the 1840s Franklin expedition and its doomed search for the Northwest Passage. Sir John Franklin, the leader of the expedition and captain of the Erebus, is an aging fool. 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 their two ships quickly trapped in pack ice, their voyage is a disaster from start to finish. Some men perish from disease, others from the cold, still others from botulism traced to tinned food purchased from the lowest bidder. Madness, mutiny and cannibalism follow. And then there's the monstrous creature from the ice, the thing like a polar bear but many times larger, possessed of a dark and vicious intelligence. This complex tale should find many devoted readers and add significantly to Simmons's already considerable reputation.

But what the fuck do they know?

I'm thinking a bunch of English sailors looking for the Northwest passage get stuck in the ice, run out of food, starve to death, freeze to death and get killed by some giant monster thing on the ice..... sounds good.

Did you read it? Is it any good?

 

[Ah-Teen]

I've heard their story before... I blame lead!

(they used lead solder to seal their cans of food.)

 

[Crowfoot]

That looks very good. Strange mix of genres, it sounds like, but ones that should work well together. And you can't lose with a young Inuit medecine woman in your story.

 

[GreyViper]

Well Im fan of his other novels Hyperion saga and Olympus one come to mind. Will try read it when I get it. By the way the

And then there's the monstrous creature from the ice, the thing like a polar bear but many times larger, possessed of a dark and vicious intelligence.

got me thinking Cthulu mythos if he expanded on that it might turn out rather well.