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...

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 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...

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....

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, ...

On a future Earth, what is left of humanity lives life to the hilt while denying a harsh truth…One man, Kaloyan, has lived through that truth and knows what his friends are about to face, including one friend in particular….And We Danced All Night is a science fiction short story by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper.Dystopian Science Fiction Short Story__Praise for Cameron Cooper’s SF:*E...

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...

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 lethal cat and mouse game.To pay off a long-standing debt, Tatiana Wang, captain of the freeship Hathaway, takes aboard a politically high-risk passenger. When the Hathaway is caught by the Karassian military’s flagship, led by the biocomp captain Yishmeray, “high risk” becomes “deadly.”The But Now I See novelette is part of the Indigo Reports space opera series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper.The Indigo Reports series:...

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...

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 ...

Meet Ptolemy Jovan Lane—lawkeeper, investigator, and problem-solver—on the fringes of known space.From bodies found in zero-gravity brothels to mysterious severed limbs, Lane’s reputation as the town peacemaker takes him deep into the heart of murder, intrigue, and political machinations in Georgina’s Town. But it's not just about solving crimes; Lane must face the demons of his own past, new enemies he didn’t know he had, and even the impossible notion th...