Announcing THE TERROR by Dan Simmons
We’re proud to announce the signed limited edition of one of Dan Simmons’s best books, The Terror, a punishing narrative centered on the Franklin Expedition of the Nineteenth Century. We’re already hard at work on the book, having it designed, and soon to be proofed. We’ve also sent Dan a few suggestions as to illustrator and are just awaiting his input.
Here are the full details:
In the spring of 1845, Sir John Franklin leads a company of two ships and 130 men on a hazardous voyage to the remote, uncharted Arctic. His goal: to locate and map the legendary Northwest Passage. Two years later, the expedition, which began in a spirit of optimism and high purpose, faces disaster. Franklin is dead. The two ships — the Erebus and the Terror — are hopelessly trapped by gigantic, shifting ice floes. Supplies are dwindling, and the crews struggle daily against lethal, unimaginably frigid conditions. And something — some Thing — is stalking the survivors, spreading death, suffering, and chaos in its remorseless wake.
The Terror is both a rigorously researched historical novel and a compelling homage to one of the seminal SF/Horror films of the 1950s. It is popular fiction of the highest order, the kind of intense, wholly absorbing epic only Dan Simmons could have written.
Limited: 500 signed numbered copies: $80
Lettered: 26 signed copies, handbound, housed in a custom traycase: $500
Collectors Note: Our last few Dan Simmons limiteds, Ilium and Olympos, had significantly higher limitations than The Terror, and both of those were sold out on or shortly after publication. If you’re wondering how the lettered edition will look, have a glance at the lettered The Green Mile by Stephen King. We plan to use the same handbinder and presentation style for The Terror.
While we’re speaking of Dan, we should mention he went well above the call of duty with his contribution to the Jack Vance tribute anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth. Dan penned a 26,000 word novella, “The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz”, which is utterly dazzling, making the anthology worth the price of admission for that tale alone.