Editing Dan Simmons (section)

==Historical fiction==
''[[The Terror (novel)|The Terror]]'' (2007) crosses the bridge between horror and historical fiction. It is a fictionalized account of Sir [[John Franklin]] and [[Franklin's lost expedition|his expedition]] to find the [[Northwest Passage]]. The two ships, {{HMS|Erebus|1826|6}} and {{HMS|Terror|1813|6}}, become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster. The novel was adapted into a [[The Terror (TV series)|ten-part television series]].

''The Abominable'' (2013) recounts a mid-1920s attempt on [[Mount Everest]] by five climbers—two British, one French, one Sherpa, and one American (the narrator)—to recover the body of a cousin of one the British characters.<ref>{{cite news|title=Review: 'The Abominable' by Dan Simmons|date=October 20, 2013|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-1020-abominable-dan-simmons-20131020-story.html|author=Robbins, Michael}}</ref>