Episode 27: The Terror

Kicking off the spooky season with a little book club, we are going to be talking about Dan Simmons' award winning book, The Terror. This historical fiction thriller is set within Franklin's Lost Expedition, a British naval expedition from the 1840's whose goal was to find the fabled Northwest Passage within the Northern Polar Sea. At the time, the expedition vanished without a trace, and no one knows exactly what occurred while they spent years stuck in the ice. Today, I'll be talking about the history behind the Franklin Expedition, why it was so popular, why it likely failed, and how Simmons encapsulated the the story within an epic, dark suspense novel. Bundle up as we dive into the frigid wasteland described as "The Cold White Nothing".