Imperial Hammer

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, withdrew from the Imperial Rangers decades ago, her reputation in tatters. She lives on her family’s star barge, waiting to die of a rare disease: old age. She would be the array’s perfect weapon against the Emperor, except she no longer gives a damn—about anything.

Then Danny learns that the military disaster which essentially ended her life might possibly have been arranged by the Emperor himself…

Hammer and Crucible is the first book in the Imperial Hammer space opera science fiction series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper.

The Imperial Hammer series:

1.0: Hammer and Crucible

1.1: An Average Night on Androkles

2.0: Star Forge

3.0: Long Live the Emperor

4.0: Severed

5.0: Destroyer of Worlds

Space Opera Science Fiction Novel

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Praise and Kudos for Hammer and Crucible:

Fourth place in Hugh Howey's Self-Published Science Fiction Contest

This was a fun, fast paced read full of action and humor.

I greedily read in this in one day. You will want to as well.

Lots of action and a boatload of twists and turns that grab your attention and won't let go. It has kept me up way past bedtime!

He builds the scenes in a way that I feel as though I am actually walking long the ship’s corridors and I can totally relate to all of the characters.

I loved Hammer and Crucible! Couldn’t put it down.

The plot is fascinating; it is intricate as well as filled with surprises and action.

This is a read that really sucks you in!

Excellent characters, twists and turns throughout.

Written in such a natural hand that you can fully image the spectacular universe the author has created.

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Cameron Cooper is the author of the Imperial Hammer space opera series, among others. 

Cameron tends to write space opera short stories and novels, but also roams across the science fiction landscape. Cameron was raised on a steady diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, McCaffrey, and others. Peter F. Hamilton, John Scalzi, Martha Wells and Cory Doctorow are contemporary heroes. An Australian Canadian, Cam lives near the Canadian Rockies.

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 distrust her because of her association with the array, including the crew of her one-of-a-kind ship, the Lythion.

Broke and alone, Danny faces a new peril: The array may not trust her, afterall…

Star Forge is the second book in the Imperial Hammer space opera science fiction series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper.

The Imperial Hammer series:

1.0: Hammer and Crucible

2.0: Star Forge

3.0: Long Live the Emperor

4.0: Severed

5.0: Destroyer of Worlds

Space Opera Science Fiction Novel

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Praise for The Imperial Hammer series:

Fun, fast paced, full of action and humor.

I greedily read in this in one day. You will want to as well.

Lots of action and a boatload of twists and turns that grab your attention and won't let go. It has kept me up way past bedtime!

This is a read that really sucks you in!

Excellent characters, twists and turns throughout.

Written in such a natural hand that you can fully image the spectacular universe the author has created.

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Cameron Cooper is the author of The Indigo Reports science fiction series and the alter ego for an Amazon #1 bestselling author in an unrelated genre. The Indigo Reports was originally conceived as a one-off series, but readers demanded more. The Imperial Hammer series was released in early 2020.

Cameron tends to write space opera short stories and novels, but also roams across the science fiction landscape. Cameron was raised on a steady diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, McCaffrey, and others. Peter F. Hamilton and John Scalzi are contemporary heroes. An Australian Canadian, Cam lives near the Canadian Rockies.

The array is their enemy, but Danny and the crew of the Supreme Lythion must pretend to be allies while they desperately search for the hidden factory where the array builds its army of super-suits.

The clock is ticking. The Emperor is besieged and fending off assassination attempts at every turn, while innocent humans are cut off from the empire and left to starve. And sooner or later, the array will learn the truth about Danny.

When that happens, its wrath will be overwhelming.

Long Live the Emperor is the third book in the Imperial Hammer space opera science fiction series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper.

The Imperial Hammer series:

1.0: Hammer and Crucible

2.0: Star Forge

3.0: Long Live the Emperor

4.0: Severed

5.0: Destroyer of Worlds

Space Opera Science Fiction Novel

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Praise for Long Live the Emperor series:

Diving straight into the action, this book hardly slows down!

the nature vs nurture debate with quite an ethical dilemma on a galaxy spanning scale.

I love sci-fi and this story makes me love it even more.

I am in awe of the writing ability and imagination of Cameron Cooper.

Before reading any of this author's work, I would have stated I did not really like science fiction. THAT has changed.

It's full of action from beginning to end

Brilliant and intricate.

Many memorable characters – but my favorite is Varg

twists and turns so you’re never really sure what is going on behind the scenes.

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Cameron Cooper is the author of the Imperial Hammer series, an Amazon best-selling space opera series, among others. 

Cameron tends to write space opera short stories and novels, but also roams across the science fiction landscape. Cameron was raised on a steady diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, McCaffrey, and others. Peter F. Hamilton and John Scalzi are contemporary heroes. An Australian Canadian, Cam lives near the Canadian Rockies.

Danny has just barely averted the array’s plans to dominate the Empire, and now must face the wrath of the Imperial Shield, and dodge a galaxy full of Imperial Rangers who want her dead.

Until now, she has had the help of her crew and the fabulous ship, The Supreme Lythion, to get her through any challenges, but the array quickly sends her crew and the ship to the four corners of the known worlds, and isolates Danny in the worst circumstances.

She is severed from all she knows, with nothing to her name and must fight back one painful step at a time…

Severed is the fourth book in the Imperial Hammer space opera science fiction series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper.

The Imperial Hammer series:

1.0: Hammer and Crucible

1.1: An Average Night on Androkles

2.0: Star Forge

3.0: Long Live the Emperor

4.0: Severed

5.0: Destroyer of Worlds

Space Opera Science Fiction Novel

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Praise for Severed:

This sci-fi thriller just gets better and better.

There is a reason this is one of my favorites.

An intense read...

fast moving, action filled read with some interesting character twists and a couple political twists that were very well done.

Intense Installment!!!

Cooper does it again, creating a story that sucks you right in and won't let you go until you finish in the wee hours of the morning!

Cameron just keeps writing better and better!

I could not put this book down! I had to read it in one long, satisfying session.

made for a reading in one sitting. Who could stop an do anything else? Even pee...

Original, interesting and well written. Highly recommend.

Compulsive reading and full of surprises! Severed is rife with tense suspense and thrills, as lives and loves hang in the balance with seemingly hopeless odds.

Another winner for Cameron Cooper.

Thrilling and Suspenseful story that is an amazing continuation of this series.

a fantastic well written read

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Cameron Cooper is the author of the Imperial Hammer series, an Amazon best-selling space opera series, among others. 

Cameron tends to write space opera short stories and novels, but also roams across the science fiction landscape. Cameron was raised on a steady diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, McCaffrey, and others. Peter F. Hamilton and John Scalzi are contemporary heroes. An Australian Canadian, Cam lives near the Canadian Rockies.