Cover Art | The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton

Some more new covers for Peter F Hamilton's novels, this time it's the Night's Dawn trilogy:

I much prefer these to the Dreaming Void cover, but they still don't match up to the original covers, IMO.

Cover Art | The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton (Tor)

I know Tor UK have plans to re-jacket all of Peter F Hamilton's covers, with the Commonwealth Saga and Greg Mandel books already the recipients of this treatment. Here's the new one for The Dreaming Void:

Meh. Jim Burns' version is much better.

I'm becoming increasingly disappointed with the new covers adorning Peter's books. The Night's Dawn trilogy is up for re-release in December, while The Temporal Void re-cover is more than likely following next year. Not sure if The Evolutionary Void will get the treatment, seeing as Steve Stone (who is responsible for the new covers) is behind that one (as well as for Manhattan in Reverse), or whether Fallen Dragon, Misspent Youth, and A Second Chance at Eden will be in line in the future too.

Thankfully I own all the books in hardback with their original and, in my humble opinion, much better artwork.

Cover Art & Synopsis | Great North Road by Peter F Hamilton (Del Rey)

New York Times bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton’s riveting new thriller combines the nail-biting suspense of a serial-killer investigation with clear-eyed scientific and social extrapolation to create a future that seems not merely plausible but inevitable.

A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humanity has solved its energy shortages, cleaned up the environment, and created far-flung colony worlds. The keys to this empire belong to the powerful North family—composed of successive generations of clones. Yet these clones are not identical. For one thing, genetic errors have crept in with each generation. For another, the original three clone “brothers” have gone their separate ways, and the branches of the family are now friendly rivals more than allies.

Or maybe not so friendly. At least that’s what the murder of a North clone in the English city of Newcastle suggests to Detective Sidney Hurst. Sid is a solid investigator who’d like nothing better than to hand off this hot potato of a case. The way he figures it, whether he solves the crime or not, he’ll make enough enemies to ruin his career.

Yet Sid’s case is about to take an unexpected turn: because the circumstances of the murder bear an uncanny resemblance to a killing that took place years ago on the planet St. Libra, where a North clone and his entire household were slaughtered in cold blood. The convicted slayer, Angela Tramelo, has always claimed her innocence. And now it seems she may have been right. Because only the St. Libra killer could have committed the Newcastle crime.

Problem is, Angela also claims that the murderer was an alien monster.

Now Sid must navigate through a Byzantine minefield of competing interests within the police department and the world’s political and economic elite . . . all the while hunting down a brutal killer poised to strike again. And on St. Libra, Angela, newly released from prison, joins a mission to hunt down the elusive alien, only to learn that the line between hunter and hunted is a thin one.

Now this is an awesome cover. I like the UK version, but this one from Del Rey is just on another level entirely. I'll be getting this in hardcover for my collection....