Dan Simmons’ upcoming historical/thriller/fantasy/suspense novel “Drood” is coming in 2009, and it has a cover.
Freakin’s slick. Luckily, his writing is more than slick, it’s good. Check out “The Terror” or “Olympus.”
On “Drood,”
Drood, in the tradition of The Terror, is a unique mix of history, biography, and dark fantasy, but where The Terror dealt with an actual doomed Arctic expedition in 1848, Drood looks at the lives and secrets of Charles Dickens and his novelist friend Wilkie Collins in the period 1865-1870. History records that Dickens was in the terrible Staplehurst train accident of 1865 and suffered injuries – both physical and psychological — from which he never recovered. He died suddenly on the fifth anniversary of that accident on June 9,1870.
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