Cover Launch: Slow Gods by Claire North

We are thrilled to share the extraordinary cover for Slow Gods by Claire North – a spectacular intergalactic tale of conspiracy, war and the fall of empires, from the million-copy bestselling, award-winning Claire North.

Cover design by Nico Taylor @ Little, Brown Book Group.

Coming in September 2025, Slow Gods is a space opera that will thrill readers of Ann Leckie, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arkady Martine and Iain M. Banks. Adrian Tchaikovsky has dubbed the book ‘an astonishing, thought-provoking and above all touching story of found meaning and lost humanity’.

Claire’s editor Anna Jackson says ‘Slow Gods is an impeccable novel: a gripping tale about the only pilot in the universe who can traverse deep space without going mad, who becomes embroiled in conspiracy, an intergalactic war and the supernova death of a world. This book will thrill not just Claire’s existing fans but also a whole new generation of space opera readers.’

Claire North says ‘I had loads of fun exploring Ancient Greece for the Songs of Penelope series, but it turns out that three books of needle-sharp family politics make you yearn for some broad horizons, and nothing says broad horizons quite like the infinity of space. The possibilities are, if anything, too big and half the writing process is about eliminating possibilities, cutting things down until you can tell a human-scale story of hope and loss on a galaxy-scale canvas of supernovas and worlds in flame.’