Террор

In 1845, the expedition, under the command of the experienced polar explorer, Sir John Franklin, goes on the vessels of Terror and Erebus to the northern coast of Canada to search for the northwestern passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific - and disappears without a trace. Her searches were dragged on for several decades, information about her fate was collected literally by bit, and so far the picture of the incident is replete with white spots - although the sensation broke out in the fall of 2014: after more than one and a half centuries, Erebus was finally discovered, and scientists are already preparing to prepare Start studying the remains of the ship, perfectly preserved in polar waters. But a few years before this amazing discovery of Dan Simmons, the famous author of Hyperion and "Endimion", "Ilion" and "Olympus", "Songs of Kali" and the Dark Death Game, proposed his version of events: the main threat to the expedition They made up not crushing hugs of ice, not a cold with a blizzard and not spoiled by canned food - but an unknown gigantic monster, as if woven from snow and polar darkness