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Dan Simmons (born in 1948) is a famous American writer who works in various genres of fiction, including space opera, horror, mystery thriller, and historical novel. Dan Simmons is the author of almost thirty novels, the most famous of which are the Hyperion Songs cycle and the novel Terror;which tells the story of John Franklin's expedition on the ships Erebus and Terror, which in 1845 set out in search of the Northwest Passage in the Arctic Ocean, with the impressive historical accuracy achieved by Simmons through years of studying a huge amount of archival material.

Today, Dan Simmons is one of the most powerful writers in the near-fiction field. Combining stunning ideas and assumptions with a filigree literary style, he creates truly epic works of fiction worthy of his many years of experience teaching English literature and writing, as well as his honorary doctorate in literature.

Dan Simmons' work has been repeatedly recognised by many significant literary awards, including the World Fantasy Award, Locus Award, Bram Stoker Awards, Hugo Award, British Science Fiction Association Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, International Horror Guild Awards, and others.

Dan Simmons has written a novel of extraordinary epic power in the now forgotten area of literature about the heroic confrontation between man and blind, powerful and cruel nature. Someone will find here analogies with Herman Melville's Moby Dick, someone will find this work reminiscent of a harsher and gloomier version of Jack London's stories about the north, but these will be only very rough analogies that are completely dispelled at the first acquaintance with this novel. In the process of working on Terror, Dan Simmons worked long and hard on the archives, as a result of which, while reading the novel, there is a feeling of presence among the characters of a real expedition of two ships of the Royal Navy of Great BritainErebus and Terror, which left their home port in 1845 in search of the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean. The ships never returned, and Simmons, along with a detailed description of the expedition, presents his vision of the reasons for its fiasco.

The north, the bitter cold and no less severe hunger, as well as death from a supernatural something that is always lurking somewhere nearby, now and then claiming the lives of the expedition members. Against the backdrop of the literally deadly beautiful landscapes of the north, there is a struggle with the indifferent and cruel nature, a struggle with something unknown that neither guns nor the fiercest storms of the northern winter can stop, and finally, a struggle with each other, because, as we know from ancient times, man is the most terrible and cruel animal.