IRON HAMMER BOXED SET by Cameron Cooper
Iron Hammer 8.5
Space Opera Novel Collection
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All eight novels of the Iron Hammer space opera series and a bonus short story.
Danny Adela, once known as the Imperial Hammer, now called the Iron Hammer, fights for survival of the Carinad worlds.
The underdog Carinad forces face an enemy who knows nothing but war, whose culture is built upon the glory of battle. As the Slavers fall upon the vulnerable Carinad worlds, Danny and her allies work to find a way out of the no-win scenario they face…
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
8.5: Iron Hammer Boxed Set
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This series unfolds like a mystery as Danny steps in to help an old friend, only to have the situation grow stranger and more dangerous as time progresses. Some really good twists and excellent pacing in this one that will keep you turning pages until the end.
One of the things I like about this series (and Imperial Hammer that came before it) is that complications are well thought out and not just thrown in as plot devices and forgotten. Characters continue to deal with the ramifications of decisions, tech developments, gov't changes etc long after they were initially introduced, and often in ways that reflect true fallout and unintended consequences. It builds to a conclusion that is magnificent, a satisfying conclusion to a grand sweeping saga that manages to weave in bits from all throughout the series.
Cooper has taken a familiar trope in sci-fi - new tech allowing for rapid expansion and first encounters of the 4th, 5th and/or 6th kind and built it into a rich complex space opera complete with an enemy that can not be defeated through any traditional means. Rife with conflict and fall out from the Imperial Hammer series. And more parawolves!
This is the first book in a new series that is a spin off of Imperial Hammer series. Cooper does an excellent job of world building and reintroducing familiar characters in a way that makes this book fully enjoyable to readers both new to the series and familiar with Danny's adventures with the Array.
I was fortunate to be able to read these as they were released. You are a fortunate reader who can grab them all in one fabulous place, with a bonus novella!
*** 1.0 Galactic Thunder ***
Thought Provoking and Fabulous!!
First book in a spin-off series. Many of the characters we know and love. My favorite parawolf Varg had a litter, each who bonded with many of the main characters. I’m so very pleased!
The premise is divine; we are not alone in the universe. But they are not invaders per-se. We “barely” know they exist. We cannot “find” them. We do not know what they want. Can we assume the ones who have made contact are representative of all of them? Are they rogue pirates displaying the “worst” of their species?
There is action – but there are more thought-provoking puzzles.
The smartest in the galaxy must work together to save lives and solve this mystery.
A fully satisfying story – yet there are more mysteries to solve in this series. Thought-provoking and fabulous!!
*** 2.0 Stellar Storm ***
Sci-Fi at It’s Very Best!!
This is such a unique and believable world! To fight an unknown foe. In an uncertain place. An absolutely fascinating mission to save those who were taken. The most able and most intelligent form a team to achieve the near impossible.
From overall logistics of how to find the taken, to intricate details of their extraction.
Building a team of diverse people and anticipating the opposing response during the rescue. Personalities, dedication, loyalty and fabulous para wolves come together to create a brilliant story!
*** 3.0 Planetary Parlay ***
Earth (Terran) Never Seemed so Strange!!!
The world-building here is absolutely phenomenal. Danny and a Team of Politicians / negotiators are visiting at the request of the Terrans. They all want to prevent a war. Danny believes it is inevitable, she is in charge of security for the team.
Brought to an island enclave, our team must deal with a completely different set of values and circumstances. Each is assigned their own slave, who may get a little too close at times. Structures with no walls, an intriguing translator Slate, new technologies, and unpleasant histories are erased instead of learned from.
Parawolves provide a bright spot as always.
It’s like you are there. Detailed, imaginative and highly entertaining.
*** 4.0 Waxing War ***
The Most Intricate, Fascinating World-Building Ever!!
As we enter book #4 in this series – the details and concepts that are presented are so thought-provoking!! War with the Terrans still seems likely – though they are currently busy with a civil war.
The Terrans are really interested in the ability to clone and extend life. We see Jai – who was “killed” in the prior book go through the transfer process into a new body. We also see Slate – who was an older, failing translator robot on Terran, but with the association with Danny and her crew, and being allowed “opinions”, has now become self-aware and given his own options.
A new para-wolf hybrid, the differences between chess and cards, and so many little details which make this world truly come alive to the reader.
The efforts to understand your enemy. The coming together of a (hopefully) unbeatable team.
Then a pivotal event – which changes everything!
I’m thrilled to know there will be 8 books in this series – I just can’t get enough of it!!
*** 5.0 Ruled Out ***
Intricate Detail and Super Suspenseful Action!!
This is #5 in the series – do yourself a favor and read the first four! The progression of the characters and their importance at each stage make this book in the series especially meaningful.
A war is coming. But no one but Danny, our Iron Hammer will speak that truth. How can you save your entire world, when they will not act?
Finally, a group of leaders come together – but every action/decision will take years.
Inciteful, detailed, perfectly crafted story which has day-to-day actions and amazing twists and turns. This world comes alive for the reader.
*** 6.0 Stranger Stars ***
More Twists & Turns - Fabulous!!
This series continues to be gripping and realistic in its attention to detail.
How do you fight an enemy who thrives on war? What do you do when they are toying with you, just to prolong the inevitable?
A hopeful initiative ends in a crushing loss, which could have been much worse. How are the Terrans tracking them, and how can the tide be turned.
The inventive nature of this series is beyond any I have read. It will keep you on the edge of your seat and gasping for your next breath. Simply Stunning!
*** 7.0 Federal Force ***
Wow - More on This Exciting Space War!!
The last group to fight the Terrans gave up one million souls to make it appear they were wiped out. Danny is not willing to make that sacrifice. She has an intriguing new initiative. Meanwhile, also fighting against the spy in their midst.
This continues to be an intricate, detailed and fascinating struggle. Totally engrossing. A fabulous series!!
*** 8.0 Redline Rebels ***
Stunning Ending to this Fabulous Series!!
A long-standing war with a people who thrive on, and live for war. An intricately detailed insider’s view of how to think outside the box, while not letting those who have her under scrutiny realize what is happening.
This world is built like no other. These characters have been with us for multiple series, and we feel their pain, frustration and resolve as they literally work to save humanity.
An incredible set of stories. There is nothing else out there like this.
I absolutely loved every page of THE IRON HAMMER BOX SET. Danny is full of vim and vinegar, the plot is tight (amazing how you made me feel caught up after almost 30 years!), the main characters are still themselves but older (with only time-wrought changes). If you haven’t read prior books, no problem; everything is explained. Just jump in! This series is absolutely Un. Put. Downable!
Box sets mean easier binge reading of series, with a few swipes you can move on to the next book of the series and keep reading. And since I devoured Danny´s stories as the Imperial Hammer, I needed this box set! Iron Hammer takes place around twenty-five years later and it was interesting to see how Danny´s and her friends´ life developed. It was very easy to dive back in their universe and the books are as great and hard to put down as the previous.
This series and an exciting adventure with a dynamic cast of characters.
I have throughly enjoyed this series and all that it gave. I am including below a few of my individual reviews from throughout the swries .
Galactic Thunder
This is the first book in the spin off of the Imperial Hammer. This is a fast paced, action packed space opera. This is well written with a fantastic, entertaining storyline with great twists
Waxing War
Danny and the crew's story continues to develop with a thickening plot line, building suspense and continued vivid world building. The writing is detailed and descriptive creating an immersive story. This is fantastic read!
Federal Force
This is book seven and the series is only continuing to get stronger. Danny is by now a beloved character that is easy to become invested in their story. This addition is fast paced and packed with action. The story is character driven and continues to have amazing world and plot development.
Redline Rebels
This is the final book in the series and gives a satisfying ending. This has exciting plot twists and action. The storytelling is engrossing and engaging. The characters and emotions are complex. I really recommend this series, to any sci-fi reader.
A fantastic series set in the far future. Danny being reluctant to re-engage back to her fighting days becomes immersed in a do or die situation to save humanity. The space opera evolves wonderfully into a grand story which I could not put down. The characters are easy to love, and the dialog is engaging. I would read this series over and over. If you love space opera, you will love this series. I cannot recommend it enough.
Cameron Cooper’s Iron Hammer series is engaging from beginning to end. From its amazing start through its end, the story is so transfixing and realistic that you feel like you are present as the characters interact both conversationally and in action scenes.
I really don’t know how Cameron created a story that is so great and realistic. Whole worlds, their societies, their history and their struggles, are intricately detailed as we follow Danny and her friends and family working to save their civilization. I have enjoyed watching Danny deal with each new situation with thoughtful, but down-to-earth, solutions.
This series is a must read for anyone who loves science fiction/space opera and reminds me of why I fell in love with this genre to begin with.
Thank you Cameron!
I've read all of the Iron Hammer books and they are amazing. These were some of the first Space SF books I have ever read and I was amazed! These books are gripping, and exciting and I couldn't put them down then waited very impatiently for the next one. So I was very excited to get The Iron Hammer Boxed Set and read them all again en masse! You should definitely get this boxed set!
I enjoyed this series about Danny Adela and the trouble and situations she and her crew end up in. Lots of action, danger, surprises, intrigue and a whole lot more. Each story is well written and drew me in as they flowed from one to the next situation. So easy to read and hard to put down. Enjoyed the stories and characters as they fine trouble and have to get out of.
Iron Hammer Boxed Set, by Cameron Cooper, is a series of eight novels and a short story, set in a universe where war becomes inevitable because the enemy knows no other way to exist. Danny Andela, the “Iron Hammer,” is the central figure in this series. The novels are laced together organically, each joining seamlessly to the next one to form a giant arc that spans space and time. The reader will believe they live in this universe, and the printing of food, and the transference of sentient computers into cloned bodies will become the norm. The ability to extend their lives in the Carinad federation is the envy of the Terran Union, creating the perfect excuse to go to war. Andela finds herself in the position of understanding the danger coming to the Carinad worlds, and, with the help of those around her, both under her command, and those along for the ride, works to find a solution to stop the war intended to last a century. Cooper sucks the reader into this universe, and won’t let you go until the story is done. And maybe after that. Settle in for a long read. It’ll be worth it.
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EXCERPT FROM IRON HAMMER BOXED SET
COPYRIGHT © CAMERON COOPER 2023
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Every speaker on our suits and the ones inside our helmets blasted out a warning klaxon at full volume. Ophir screamed and I winced and put my spare hand over my ear.
“Incoming! Incoming!” Lyssa shouted at us. “They appeared out of nowhere! No warning! They’re right on top of us!”
“Run!” I screamed and pounded down the corridor.
The two wolves stayed with me, whining at the loud noise, which had to be painful for them to listen to with their sensitive hearing.
“Shut the alarm off!” I screamed.
“I’m coming in!” Lyssa shouted back. “They’re fast! I’ve never seen anything like it!”
The klaxon shut off abruptly.
“Analyze later!” I shouted back. I turned into the entry foyer. The two airlock doors were still locked open, for which I was profoundly grateful. I ran at them, fumbling for my helmet. Then I gave up on it. No time.
I paused at the edge of the outer door. The tunnel was still in place, the lights around the doorframe on the shuttle glowing green—but I didn’t need the lights to know the tunnel was still there. We would be experiencing explosive decompression if it wasn’t.
I waved Dalton and Fiori on. “I’ll steer Vara!”
Fiori didn’t hesitate. She sprinted through the two lock doors and launched herself across the tunnel with a grunt of effort, with Ophir clinging to her, his face buried in her shoulder. She sailed across, letting inertia do the work.
Dalton and Darb pounded after her. Dalton thrust his fingers into the fur behind Darb’s neck as he pushed off with a powerful thrust of his legs.
I didn’t wait to watch them make the crossing. I gripped Vara by the scruff and hurled her out into the tunnel and pushed off myself. I dared to glance to the right and then the left. The unnamed blue sun was lifting up over the edge of the planet behind us. Its cold light glinted off a sight I will never forget.
The ship was unlike anything I’d ever seen, and in my lifetime, I have seen hundreds of starships, some of them highly experimental and futuristic. This ship looked like it had been created from the ground up by deliberately eschewing every sensible ship design decision.
I had no time to stare at it. I got a single, startled glimpse of unfocused details, including the huge size of the thing—it was easily three times the size of the Lythion—then the nose of the shuttle hid it from my view.
Vara scrabbled uselessly with her paws, trying to paddle her way across the tunnel. We were barely a meter from the lip of the shuttle door.
“Danny!” Dalton cried and thrust out his right arm to point in the direction I hadn’t been looking.
I snapped my head around.
A small ship, so small I suspected it to be a one-man fighting craft, hovered thirty meters away, sitting between the Ige Ibas and the shuttle. A dozen more of the little craft were screaming in to form up behind it.
The front of the craft was a clear, flat canopy, giving the pilot an unobstructed three-sixty degree view of what lay ahead of him.
And I could see him, too. Or her.
Or it.
It was bipedal and stood upright, with two arms reaching toward controls in front of it. I couldn’t see what it had for hands. The entire creature was encased in a shiny carapace that glinted very dark blue in the light from the rising sun. Its head was truly alien, with an elongated snout that ended in a circular mouth that showed a red interior, and teeth around the edge in two concentric circles. Sharp, angular spines rose up in a line over the high head, and disappeared behind. The eyes were enormous and blank.
The thing worked the controls in front of it while I floated with my mouth open, my heart pistoning overtime.
Something shot out from a maw in the craft’s fuselage beneath the front window, trailing a line.
I didn’t know what the thing or the line were for, but primitive instincts gibbered in fear. I could feel my teeth trying to chatter.
The thing at the end of the line had intelligence. I watched it change directions as I tried to paddle my way over to the shuttle, just like Vara. I’d lost all good sense. I tried to pull myself together, to act smart. But all I wanted to do was get inside the shuttle, shut the door and curl up in the corner. Maybe wrap my arms over my head like Ophir.
The little boy was screaming and pounding his fists against Fiori’s shoulder. His eyes were so wide and so filled with primordial fear that a clear border of white showed around the irises.
The thing on the end of the line pushed through the molecular barrier and I held my breath, waiting for the air to evaporate, but the barrier held.
The thing shot toward Fiori, who had just reached the ship, and whipped itself around her ankle. The line snapped taut, jerking her away from the ship.
Now I knew what the thing was for.
As soon as Fiori felt the tug on her ankle, she wrenched Ophir away from her and threw him at the open door of the shuttle. The little boy sailed through the meter of space until the gravity of the shuttle caught him and sent him rolling across the interior floor.
Dalton gripped the edge of the door with one hand and shoved Darb into the pull of the gravity. Then he slapped his other hand over Fiori’s wrist and hauled against the pull of the line.
I had nothing to hang on to, to push Vara forward. All we could do was float slowly toward the shuttle. Any attempt to swim faster would push us backward.
Vara yipped and growled in high, frightened notes, which didn’t help stop my teeth from chattering.
Fiori reached for Dalton with her other hand, her eyes as huge as Ophir’s. She was being drawn inexorably backward by the line. The alien controlling it watched us struggle with what looked like utter disinterest.
“Nearly there!” Lyssa cried from the speakers.
Vara was slightly ahead of me and the shuttle’s gravity field extended a half meter from the ship itself. Vara scrambled as she felt the pull of gravity, trying to move faster.
I was close enough now that I could reach out and grab Dalton’s boot, and haul myself up the length of his body. I hooked my knee over his, anchoring myself. “Don’t let go,” I told him.
“Hurry,” he said through gritted teeth. The tendons in his neck were standing out as he strained to hang on to Fiori.
I unhooked the torrent shriver and raised it. “Everyone, be ready. The tunnel is going to collapse.”
I aimed right at the motherfucker’s face. He had to see what I was doing, but he didn’t seem concerned about it.
I didn’t hesitate. I fired, holding the trigger down, so the shriver fired continuously.
The molecular barrier collapsed with a popping sound.
Wind screamed at us from the interior of the shuttle, before the barrier could form over the open doorway and hold it in.
A pad—I think it was mine—whipped through the door with the speed of a percussion bullet and shot passed my arm.
I felt the sharp sting and even sharper cold of absolute vacuum.
I blew out my breath—one of the hardest things a spacer had to learn to do, because it went against the survival instinct.
The alien ship lit up with blue fire dancing over every surface. The pilot convulsed.
The craft drifted sideways, burning merrily.
The line around Fiori’s leg grew slack. Her head lay inside the barrier, her body hung from the door.
I shoved her through the door, and she scrambled away from it on her hands and knees.
Dalton gripped my elbow and hauled me into the ship.
As soon as I had gravity under me, I jammed my boot on the floor and pulled him in after me. I shut the door as soon as he was inside and threw myself into the copilot chair.
