I reread Dan Simmons’ The Terror. It’s a fictionalized version of the Franklin Expedition of the 1800s where the English tried to find the North West Passage and everyone died. Almost 800 pages of cold, starvation, scurvy and a mythic inuit monster killing people. And slow. Yet I come back to it every few years. AMC made a TV-version of it, that’s on Prime (at least in Finland). It’s pretty good, and has a terrific cast with Jared Harris in the lead role.
