![]() ![]() ![]() The expedition is in enough trouble without this hostile being’s attention. ![]() The initial scene immediately introduces the novel’s main supernatural element: a giant bear-like entity (the crew call it the thing) that preys on the explorers and appears invulnerable to their weapons. The author jumbles the chronological sequence, beginning in October 1847 with Terror (one of the expedition’s two ships the other was Erebus) trapped in the ice north of Canada, where they have come in search of the Northwest Passage. Simmons ( Olympos, 2005, etc.) tells the story through the eyes of several characters, including the expedition’s leader, Sir John Franklin, co-commander Captain Francis Crozier and the ship’s surgeon Harry Goodsir. Horror novel based on an ill-fated 19th-century polar expedition. ![]()
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