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plasma_beamyesterday at 7:38 PM4 repliesview on HN

I see everyone talking about Hyperion, so I will play up The Terror as one of my favorites. The TV series did NOT do it justice.


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MonkeyIsNullyesterday at 7:41 PM

Yeah, I never got pulled into Hyperion but The Terror was.. something else. Just a masterpiece, and the TV series came nowhere near.

nurblyesterday at 8:31 PM

Well there was no way the show would be quite as good as the book. But I was still pleasantly surprised, it was definitely better than the average TV adaptation. The actors were very good.

93benzyesterday at 8:47 PM

Currently finishing up The Terror. I've never read a horror story until I got this. There are times I struggle to put it down, incredible book. Simmons painted quite a colorful picture of what it's like to die from scurvy so now I bring an emergency orange wherever I go.

virgil_disgr4ceyesterday at 8:15 PM

THANK YOU!!! The Terror—the book—absolutely blew me away. I still am in awe of that book. Just everything about it.

And yeah the adaptation was so, so weak. But it faced the same problem many horror movies do, which is that if you're forced to show the Thing™ it loses all its power.