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Hurry up, Jeff Bezos! I Want to Live In An O’Neill Cylinder!

Hurry up, Jeff Bezos! I Want to Live In An O’Neill Cylinder!

I think I want to live in Wynchester.

Either that, or Starbase Yorktown, from the Star Trek: Beyond movie.

Yorktown looks like the perfect futuristic city.  I think it’s one of the best things about this entire movie.  And I just love, love, love the transporter booths dotted along the city streets in one of the scenes — they remind me (just a little) of the old glass phone booths that once dotted our city streets.  And yeah, I’m old enough to remember them.

Wynchester, in the Iron Hammer series, is a different sort of space station.  I designed it based upon the O’Neill Cylinder design, with a few tweaks of my own.  Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, is a huge fan of O’Neill Cylinders, and wants to build one.  I’m absolutely in!

I love Yorktown, but I like the idea of Wynchester, too.  Wynchester is…well, greener.  And I don’t know about you, but the one thing that makes me nervous about Yorktown is that all-over dome exterior, which looks extraordinarily vulnerable.  And when you read the opening of Stellar Storm, you’ll see exactly what I mean!

Kalpana One Camera 87 by Bryan Versteeg. Artist’s impression of the interior of an O’Neill Cylinder habitat.

Wynchester features a lot in this book, and I have a feeling we’ll be back there in the future, too.

Stellar Storm is released today on all bookstores.

Danny and her crew expose a new enemy

Danny and her crew on the Supreme Lythion, and her friends and allies in the Carina worlds learn more about the Slavers and their appetite for war.

When slavers raid a Carina star station and snatch more of their people, Jai Van Veen directs Danny to return the favour—steal into Slaver territory and take their people back.  Only the quasi-military venture reveals more about the threatening nature of their new enemy than anyone is braced for…

Stellar Storm is the second book in the Iron Hammer space opera science fiction series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper. The Iron Hammer series is a spin off from the acclaimed Imperial Hammer series, and features many of the characters and situations from that series.

The Iron Hammer series:
1.0: Galactic Thunder
2.0: Stellar Storm
3.0: Planetary Parlay
4.0: Waxing War
5.0: Ruled Out
6.0: Stranger Stars
7.0: Federal Force
8.0: Redline Rebels

Space Opera Science Fiction Novel

As usual, if you pre-order your copy direct from me, you get it a week earlier than if you pre-order on the retail booksites.

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The entire series is now out and available for pre-order!

I’ve been working my tail off for a while to make this happen.  And I have to say, all the covers arrayed at once looks really impressive;

To find out more, or pre-order your books, see the series page.

Enjoy!

A single mid-month giveaway starts today.

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The next book in the Iron Hammer series!

The next book in the Iron Hammer series! I've been a bit busy.  You might have noticed.  :) The next book in the Iron Hammer series, STELLAR STORM, is already out on pre-order. But first, of course:  Cover reveal! Danny and her crew expose a new enemy Danny and her crew on the Supreme [...]

The only five promos for this month.

You can click on the image or the title beneath to check these out. I'm only in the five promos this month. The first in this list ends on the 15th, while the rest run throughout the month. Click Here or the picture to check out all the excellent deals! Click Here or the picture [...]

50% off EVERYTHING for SRP’s Birthday Month! Four Days only.

50% off EVERYTHING for SRP's Birthday Month! Four Days only. That's not a typoe. 50% of everything on Stories Rule Press, for four days. This is our usual monthly sale, but with an extra kick, because nearly every author at Stories Rule Press has a birthday in February. Actually, it's even more intense than [...]

Do you do animated series? And, Galactic Thunder is out!

Do you do animated series? And, Galactic Thunder is out! I've been on a Star Wars binge lately, and for the first time ever, dipped into one of the animated series. I grew up watching very early animations, where the background was static, most of the character was static, and the mouth moved when [...]

A sale and a Giveaway

You can click on the image or the title beneath to check these out. These are longer than normal promos, both ending at the end of March. Click Here or the picture to check out all the excellent deals! Click Here or the picture to check out all the excellent deals!

Three new SFF promos

You can click on the image or the title beneath to check these out. The first two giveaways end in the usual 30 days, on March 15, but the last one featuring boxed sets goes until the end of March, so I'll throw a reminder in somewhere around the beginning of March, because that's a [...]

More about the new series

More about the new series I had a ton of emails from everyone, who wanted to know *exactly* who from the previous series, Imperial Hammer, got to hang around for the new series, Iron Hammer. Apparently, I was a bit too vague about who got the chop.  :) I'm currently watching the thrust and [...]

SF Freebies

You can click on the image or the title beneath to check these out. This one ends March 20th. Enjoy! Click Here or the picture to check out all the excellent deals!