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The Terror

A Novel

The Terror( )
Author: Simmons, Dan
ISBN:978-0-316-00807-5
Publication Date:Jan 2009
Publisher:Little Brown & Company
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $9.00
Book Description:

The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. 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. 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 there is no escape. A haunting,...
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Book Details
Pages:992
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Horror
Fiction / Sea Stories
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Action & Adventure
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.255 x 7 x 1.75 Inches
Book Weight:0.99 Pounds
Author Biography
Simmons, Dan (Author)
Science fiction writer Dan Simmons was born in East Peoria, Illinois in 1948. He graduated from Wabash College in 1970 and received an M. A. from Washington University the following year.

Simmons was an elementary school teacher and worked in the education field for a decade, including working to develop a gifted education program.

His first successful short story was won a contest and was published in 1982. His first novel, Song of Kali, won a World Fantasy Award, and Simmons has also won a Theodore Sturgeon Award for short fiction, four Bram Stoker Awards, and eight Locus Awards. He is also the author of the Hyperion series, and Simmons and his work have been compared to Herbert's Dune and Asimov's Foundation series.

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