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In un cosmo costituito di varie dimensioni, il 19 maggio 1845, l'Erebus e la Terror, due velieri, salpano dall'Inghilterra alla ricerca del leggendario Passaggio a Nordovest; verranno ritrovate anni dopo intrappolate nel ghiaccio artico. Sulla base di un documentato episodio storico, Simmons crea un'allucinante avventura nei ghiacci che fonde ricerca storica, romanzo horror e narrazione mitologica, lasciando con il fiato sospeso fino all'epilogo geniale e imprevedibile.

En 1847, dos barcos de la Armada británica, el HMS Erebus y el HMS Terror, que navegaban bajo el mando de sir John Franklin, están atrapados en el hielo del Ártico. En su anhelada busca del paso del Noroeste, parecen haber fracasado. Sin poder hacer nada por continuar su marcha y completar su expedicion, rodeados del frio polar y de inminentes peligros, solo pueden esperar a que llegue el deshielo que les permita escapar. Poco a poco, los dias van pasando y las condiciones de supervivencia se vuelven mas extremas; temperaturas que superan los cincuenta grados bajo cero, provisiones de comida escasas, el deterioro de los barcos o la llegada de enfermedades van mellando la esperanza de la tripulacion. Por si fuera poco, la extraña presencia de una criatura bestial y misteriosa hace que los hombres crean que se enfrentan no solo a las condiciones naturales mas adversas, sino tambien a fuerzas sobrenaturales que superan, por momentos, sus creencias y su razon. Con el tiempo y la llegada de las primeras muertes, fantasmas como el de la rebelion, el motin o el canibalismo hacen su entrada en escena, en un panorama desolador. Basada en hechos reales, El Terror es una magnifica novela en la que Dan Simmons consigue que el lector se sienta, aterido, uno mas de los tripulantes extraviados en el Polo. La verdadera historia de una legendaria expedicion al Artico, transformada en una excitante y extraordinaria novela en la linea del mejor Stephen King o Patrick O'Brian.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same.

The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition - as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth - and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time - mutilating, devouring. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis. When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead the remaining crew on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak.She may be the key to survival - or the harbinger of their deaths. And as scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, as the Terror on the ice become evermore bold, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape...

The bestselling author of Ilium and Olympos transforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expedition into a thriller worthy of Stephen King or Patrick O'Brian. Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of The Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison before they open them, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching one seaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled horribly or missing forever. Captain Crozier takes over the expedition after the creature kills its original leader, Sir John Franklin. Drawing equally on his own strengths as a seaman and the mystical beliefs of the Eskimo woman he's rescued, Crozier sets a course on foot out of the Arctic and away from the insatiable beast. But every day the dwindling crew becomes more deranged and mutinous, until Crozier begins to fear there is no escape from an ever-more-inconceivable nightmare.

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to investigate the suicide of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams - a member of the family that has given the United States two Presidents. Quickly, the investigators deduce that there's more to Clover's death than meets the eye - with issues of national importance at stake. Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus - his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls during which time the people of London believe him to be deceased. The disturbed Holmes has faked his own death and now, as he meets James, is questioning what is real and what is not. Holmes' theories shake James to the core. What can this master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power - possibly Moriarty - that may or may not be controlling them from the shadows? And what was Holmes' role in Moriarty's rise? Conspiracy, action and mystery meet in this superb literary hall of mirrors from the author of Drood.

Richard Baedecker thinks his greatest challenge was walking on the moon, but then he meets a mysterious woman who shows him his past. Join Baedecker as he comes to grips with the son and wife he lost owing to his passion for space exploration, his forgotten childhood, and the loss he experienced during the deadly flight of the Challenger. The most difficult exploration of his life is not the cold, rocky crevices of the moon, but the warm interior of his heart. Brilliant and beautifully written,Phases of Gravityis a masterpiece about love and loss that transports readers far beyond the confines of space and time.

El autor superventas transforma la verdadera historia de una legendaria expedición al Ártico en un “thriller” digno de Stephen King o Patrick O’Brian. La irresponsable y demente decisión de un capitá

El 9 de junio de 1865, mientras viaja en tren hacia Londres con su amante secreta, Charles Dickens, de 53 años —en la cúspide de su popularidad, el más famoso y exitoso novelista del mundo y tal vez

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Dan Simmons aborda los últimos años de la vida de Charles Dickens a partir del accidente ferroviario que le cambió para siempre. La soledad de Charles Dickens es la inquietante historia de una obsesion.El 9 de junio de 1865, mientras viajaba en tren a Londres con su amante secreta, Charles Dickens -que entonces contaba con 53 años y se hallaba en la cuspide de su carrera literaria- se vio envuelto en un accidente ferroviario que cambio su vida para siempre.Dan Simmons narra esos ultimos años de la vida de Dickens, dandole la voz al amigo y a la vez rival del gran escritor, Wilkie Collins. Explora en los enigmas que Dickens se llevo a la tumba y que aun hoy siguen sin respuesta, deteniendose en los relacionados con su ultima e inconclusa obra: El misterio de EdwinDrood.

Paha Sapa, Black Hills, is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, he plots to blow it up. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in a strange, dark place and begins to write sensuous, heartbreaking missives to his beloved wife.