On the fringes of known space, Ptolemy Lane keeps the peace his own way.When a murder inside the one place he refuses to police drags him into a mystery, it strikes at the oldest question in his life.Georgina's Town is a domed city on the distant world of Abbatangelo, where nearly thirty thousand residents have paid dearly for the privilege of living somewhere civilized. Ptolemy Jovan Lane is the peacemaker who keeps it that way.The Desiderata casino and brothel is the exception. Lane told its owner, Guisy Oakmint, to clean up his own messes. But when Oakmint is found with his throat cut inside a zero-gravity suite, Doc Lowry insists Lane take a closer look.The reason is impossible to ignore: an undocumented human may be involved.Lane has waited nearly three hundred years for evidence that natural humans are changing. As the murder investigation leads through doctored surveillance, vanished suspects, a strange old-fashioned will and secrets buried beneath the civilization of the human fringes, this case becomes far more personal than another dead body.The Body in the Zero Gee Brothel is the first Ptolemy Lane Tale: a fast-moving SF crime story blending hardboiled detective fiction, far-future worldbuilding, dark humor and a lawman old enough to know that humanity is rarely what it first appears to be.Ptolemy Lane TalesBook 1: The Body in the Zero Gee BrothelBook 2: The Captain Who Broke the RulesBook 3: The Maker of Widowmakers' ArmBook 4: The Ancient Girl in the AutopodBook 5: The Return of the Peacemaker__Praise for Cameron's Science Fiction: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.Brilliant and intricate.Twists and turns so you're never really sure what is going on behind the scenes.__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.

On the fringes of known space, Ptolemy Lane keeps the peace his own way.When a murder inside the one place he refuses to police drags him into a mystery, it strikes at the oldest question in his life.Georgina's Town is a domed city on the distant world of Abbatangelo, where nearly thirty thousand residents have paid dearly for the privilege of living somewhere civilized. Ptolemy Jovan Lane is the peacemaker who keeps it that way.The Desiderata casino and brothel is the exception. Lane told its owner, Guisy Oakmint, to clean up his own messes. But when Oakmint is found with his throat cut inside a zero-gravity suite, Doc Lowry insists Lane take a closer look.The reason is impossible to ignore: an undocumented human may be involved.Lane has waited nearly three hundred years for evidence that natural humans are changing. As the murder investigation leads through doctored surveillance, vanished suspects, a strange old-fashioned will and secrets buried beneath the civilization of the human fringes, this case becomes far more personal than another dead body.The Body in the Zero Gee Brothel is the first Ptolemy Lane Tale: a fast-moving SF crime story blending hardboiled detective fiction, far-future worldbuilding, dark humor and a lawman old enough to know that humanity is rarely what it first appears to be.Ptolemy Lane TalesBook 1: The Body in the Zero Gee BrothelBook 2: The Captain Who Broke the RulesBook 3: The Maker of Widowmakers' ArmBook 4: The Ancient Girl in the AutopodBook 5: The Return of the Peacemaker__Praise for Cameron's Science Fiction: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.Brilliant and intricate.Twists and turns so you're never really sure what is going on behind the scenes.__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.