Great North Road
by Peter F. Hamilton
reviewed by Sheryl Roberts
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If you have never read a book by Mr. Hamilton before, this book serves as an excellent introduction into the fertile world building talent of the author. This appears to be a stand alone book, although I cannot guarantee it. I have read too many excellent trilogies by the man to think he can just stop with one novel. I love science fiction and this is a science fiction novel. It is mostly set in northern England. The author is British and I have enough friends in the north of England to know that he has his terminology and phrasings are just right. The story starts out as a murder mystery. The victim is a clone of a very successful business man, and the whole dynasty is full of clones. Finding out who did it, why they did it and who they killed takes up the entire book. However, it's not the entire book. Peter Hamilton gives us a rich backstory of a cast of interesting characters who all progress and grow as the book goes on. We have a possible alien confusing things too. Oh, and Sirius redshifts and makes the terraformed planet St. Libra uninhabitable. Not to mention there's a mounting body count along the way. And when a character dies, it affects you, because you care about that character or you relate to the character who does care for the victim. No one is really good and no one is really bad, there are nuances to the characters that make them believable and human. If you like world spanning adventure with character exploration and mysteries, this is the novel for you. Give it a try, I think you'll be glad you did.
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