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Read The Terror by Dan Simmons. This is a great mix of horror and history novel, using the expedition as its background.

by seren 12y ago

2mur 12y ago
Yeah. That is a great book. Highly recommended.
pndmnm 12y ago
Absolutely agreed. There's another (non-fiction & not about Franklin, but excellent Arctic survival from the age of exploration) book that just came out by Hampton Sides called "In The Kingdom of Ice", which is really excellent. NYT review: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/books/review/in-the-kingdom-of-ice-by-hampton-sides.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/books/review/in-the-kingdo...
trusche 12y ago
Brilliant book. Every detail about the expedition that was known at the time is very accurately depicted. The parts that were not known are woven into a fantastical, supernatural horror story. I felt cold just reading about the cold.
randomacct001 12y ago
I came in here to recommend this too. Great book. It's a fictional story that kind is accurate in that it keeps with the known time line of events and fills in all the blanks with a supernatural twist to the whole thing. Quite a scary book, too, as I remember.
cushychicken 12y ago
Didn't like it as much as I did "Hyperion" or "The Fall of Hyperion" but it was great historical fiction. Balls out scary, too.
mironathetin 12y ago
Sorry, this is already a book thread. So I post my recommendation here too: It is a brilliant novel about Franklin and his expedition: The Discovery of Slowness (Sten Nadolny) It has originally been written in german (Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit). Very well investigated. Especially John Franklin seemed to have been a very interesting character. Read the amazon reviews: people start to get philosophical, when they write about this book. A great weekend read, well worth the time. Maybe I should grab it again, too... (deleted my post in the main thread)

4 ms·

Read The Terror by Dan Simmons. This is a great mix of horror and history novel, using the expedition as its background.

by seren 12y ago

Read The Terror by Dan Simmons. This is a great mix of horror and history novel, using the expedition as its background.

2mur 12y ago
Yeah. That is a great book. Highly recommended.
pndmnm 12y ago
Absolutely agreed. There's another (non-fiction & not about Franklin, but excellent Arctic survival from the age of exploration) book that just came out by Hampton Sides called "In The Kingdom of Ice", which is really excellent. NYT review: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/books/review/in-the-kingdom-of-ice-by-hampton-sides.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/books/review/in-the-kingdo...
trusche 12y ago
Brilliant book. Every detail about the expedition that was known at the time is very accurately depicted. The parts that were not known are woven into a fantastical, supernatural horror story. I felt cold just reading about the cold.
randomacct001 12y ago
I came in here to recommend this too. Great book. It's a fictional story that kind is accurate in that it keeps with the known time line of events and fills in all the blanks with a supernatural twist to the whole thing. Quite a scary book, too, as I remember.
cushychicken 12y ago
Didn't like it as much as I did "Hyperion" or "The Fall of Hyperion" but it was great historical fiction. Balls out scary, too.
mironathetin 12y ago
Sorry, this is already a book thread. So I post my recommendation here too: It is a brilliant novel about Franklin and his expedition: The Discovery of Slowness (Sten Nadolny) It has originally been written in german (Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit). Very well investigated. Especially John Franklin seemed to have been a very interesting character. Read the amazon reviews: people start to get philosophical, when they write about this book. A great weekend read, well worth the time. Maybe I should grab it again, too... (deleted my post in the main thread)