MixedThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\"What happened to Franklin and his 129 men is a frustrating mystery to historians, but a boon for Dan Simmons, whose new novel imagines what might have befallen the expedition … The Terror can get Melvillean in spots, bogging down in descriptions of Arctic geography and nautical protocol. And Simmons, a veteran of the horror genre, may indulge in one or two vicious beast attacks too many. But ultimately, this novel makes some keen observations about man and nature, civilization and savagery. Over the course of the narrative it becomes clear that the global might of the British Empire meant nothing in the Arctic.\
