The self-aware interstellar array has struck back. A million people are dead, the Empire is coming apart, and Danny Andela and her crew are stranded on Nijeliya II—cut off from the ships, communications and technology that once connected the known worlds.
On a planet where the sun never sets, survival has become a full-time occupation. Danny is trying to hold a city together, protect the people who depend on her, and live with the losses the array has inflicted. Her grief is turning into something dangerous, and she has no intention of letting the intelligence responsible escape justice.
But Nijeliya's red star is notorious for devastating superflares. When the next one comes, an entire city could die. With the array controlling the established routes between worlds, Danny and her allies must find another way off the planet—and perhaps another way for humanity to travel among the stars.
Saving her people will take more than courage. It will take impossible engineering, uneasy alliances and a willingness to remake the future of civilization itself.
Destroyer of Worlds is the fifth and final novel in Cameron Cooper's Imperial Hammer series, a character-driven space opera of rogue artificial intelligence, galactic upheaval, desperate survival and fiercely loyal found family.
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
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Praise for the Imperial Hammer series:
What An Awesome Book! An Epic And Satisfying Finish To The Series.
This book, WOW! It moved me!! I gasped; I cried with sadness and I cried with delight!
I absolutely love Cam's galaxy building and space engineering concepts!!
Cameron Cooper writes fast-moving, character-driven science fiction filled with big ideas, political intrigue, expansive worlds, and people facing extraordinary circumstances. Best known for the Imperial Hammer space opera series, Cameron also writes military science fiction, SF crime, dystopian and alternate-history fiction, and hopepunk.
Cameron’s publishing career began in 1999 and spans both traditional and independent publishing. Cameron placed fourth in Hugh Howey’s Self-Published Science Fiction Competition #2, and the novella Quiet Like Fire was an Aurealis Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novella.
Cameron Cooper is the science fiction pen name of Tracy Cooper-Posey. An Australian-Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada, where she writes science fiction fueled by Irish Breakfast tea, chocolate, and a stubborn belief that the future is still worth fighting for.