He also worked as a national language-arts consultant, sharing his own 'Writing Well' curriculum which he had created for his own classroom. During his years of teaching, he won awards from the Colorado Education Association and was a finalist for the Colorado Teacher of the Year. His last four years in teaching were spent creating, coordinating, and teaching in APEX, an extensive gifted/talented program serving 19 elementary schools and some 15,000 potential students. He then worked in elementary education for 18 years-2 years in Missouri, 2 years in Buffalo, New York-one year as a specially trained BOCES 'resource teacher' and another as a sixth-grade teacher-and 14 years in Colorado.

in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art.ĭan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape.ĭan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional 'Elm Haven' in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice.

As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph.

The terror by dan simmons