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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons,
living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Simmons, Dan.
The terror : a novel / Dan Simmons.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-01744-2
ISBN-10: 0-316-01744-2
1. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. тАФ Fiction.
2. Shipwrecks тАФ Fiction. 3. Sea monsters тАФ Fiction. I. Tide.
PS3569.I47292T47 2007
813'.54 тАФ dc22 2006014608

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Book design by Fearn Cutler de Vicq
Maps by Jeffrey L. Ward

Printed in the United States of America
This book is dedicated, with love and many thanks for the indelible
Arctic memories, to Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert
Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, Dewey Martin, William Self, George
Fenneman, Dmitri Tiomkin, Charles Lederer, Christian Nyby,
Howard Hawkes, and James Arness.
 This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness,
when divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with
any object terrible in itself to heighten that terror to the furthest
bounds. Witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of
the tropics; what but their smooth, flaky whiteness makes them the
transcendent horrors they are? That ghastly whiteness it is which
imparts such an abhorrent mildness, even more loathesome than
terrific, to the dumb gloating of their aspect. So that not the fierce-
fanged tiger in his heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the
white-shrouded bear or shark.
тАФ HERMAN MELVILLE
Moby Dick (1851)
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