Danny and her crew learn that humans may not be alone in the galaxy.Thirty years ago, Danny and her crew on the Supreme Lythion were instrumental in the defeat of the sentient array, the crumbling of the Empire and the development of crescent ships.Now wildcat crescent ships are opening up the known galaxy, finding more worlds to be settled and new resources. When the wildcat ship Ige Ibas goes dark and silent, Dalton comes to Danny for help, becau...

The interstellar array which links worlds together wakes to find it has enemies…The Fourth Carinad Empire stretches across hundreds of settled worlds and stellar cities, and thousands of light years. The Empire’s people and data are linked by a space-folding gates array controlled by the Emperor and his cohorts. When the array evolves into a sentient entity, it recognizes the Emperor as its foe.Danny Andela, once known as The Imperial Hammer, withd...

All Danny wants is an average night…What starts out as an undisclosed job hunt turns into an interesting dinner date, but even that gets hijacked by a visit from an enemy Danny didn’t know she had.Worse, the enemy has snatched Dalton and wants Danny in exchange, which leads Danny into an evening of surprises and a new companion…An Average Night on Androkles is a short story in the Imperial Hammer space opera science fiction series by award-...

A city of peace. A whisper of chaos. A legacy at stake.Lyonesse is a beacon of unity in a fractured galaxy, a space-based city-state built on the dream of integration and peace. For Danny Andela, it’s not just home—it’s her mission. As a fierce advocate for dissolving old feuds, Danny has spent decades working to unite the Carinad, Terran, and Bai worlds.But something is wrong in Lyonesse. A series of weird malfunctions—some laughable, others deadl...

The Empire is crumbling and humanity is on its knees.The petulant, self-aware Array has retaliated. It has destroyed a space station, home to a million people, and stranded Danny and her crew on the surface of the tidally locked Nijeliya II. They must scratch for survival as best they can.While Danny works to save the city and her people, her fury over the Array’s murder of her friends and loved ones stews deep inside. She will have her revenge, no...

Be careful what you ask an android to do…Bellona Cardenas Scordina de Deluca, daughter of the primary Cardenas family, went missing ten years ago. Reynard Cardenas, Bellona’s father and head of the family, receives anonymous, unsubstantiated news that she has been found. He sends the most disposable person in the family to investigate—Sang, the family android.Sang’s investigation trips off chain reactions which shift the generations-old luke-warm w...

Meet Ptolemy Jovan Lane, a unique peacemaker.Laws are hard to hold, out in the fringes of known space, but Ptolemy Lane is charged with maintaining peace under the dome of Georgina’s Town, among humans, the docile emre and more.When a body is discovered in a zero gee suite in the local casino’s brothel wing, Lane is reluctant to get involved. The casino is off limits to his style of law keeping. Only, the body is the casino’s owner, Guisy Oakmint, ...

A world lived above and below…Saima, who comes from a different way of life, is searching for a sense of belonging within the nomadic trader tribe she lives with now. The Winterwillow Collective moves between underground villages, providing goods and news.For the Aberuthan Warren they must also provide judicial services to resolve the matter of an abduction committed by a girl whom Saima must learn to understand if the child is to be saved....

Danny is trapped in a fragile relationship with the self-aware interstellar array which calls itself Noam.The array provides transport and communications. Without its cooperation, the Carinad Empire would collapse, stranding billions of people and causing chaos and death.Danny Andela, a former Ranger known as the Imperial Hammer, is the only human the array trusts. Danny’s work to keep the array happy and minimize its deadly temper tantrums is draining. Worse, other humans ...

All Cameron’s standalone fiction (so far) in one collectionGalactic Reflections: Stories of Time, War, and Transformation is a captivating collection of short stories by Cameron Cooper, a master of speculative fiction. This anthology brings together a diverse array of tales that explore the human condition across time and space. From the solar-punk landscapes of “Winds of Change” to the cosmic origins in “Fetch,” each story offers a unique glimpse into dif...

In a world where anyone can don a different body, “fake it ‘til you make it” takes on new meaning.While celebrating the record achievements of his vast corporation, Yordan Vestri allows the media a rare personal interview that goes badly astray.A Place for Everyone is a science fiction short story by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper.Other standalone fiction by Cameron Cooper:And We Danced All NightA Place fo...

Space Opera FirstsFour First in Series Books in One Sample PackHere is the perfect chance to dip into four of Cameron Cooper’s space opera series--the first stories in each series, in one set.Hammer and CrucibleThe interstellar array which links worlds together wakes to find it has enemies…Danny Andela, once known as The Imperial Hammer, withdrew from the Imperial Rangers decades ag...