Final cover art for Peter F. Hamilton's GREAT NORTH ROAD

Via the Unisphere, we have the final cover art for Peter F. Hamilton's Great North Road (click for larger versions):

  

The cover art is by Steve Stone and will grace the British edition of the novel, to be published by Macmillan in hardcover on 27 September. Here's the cover with the full blurb:


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