1637: The Pacific Initiative

Iver P. Cooper has been an active contributor to Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire universe, with short stories and articles published in the online Grantville Gazette and in the hardcover anthology Ring of Fire II. He is the author of 1636: Seas of Fortune. Cooper is an intellectual property law attorney with Browdy & Neimark, Washington DC. He has received legal writing awards from the American Patent Law Association, the U.S. Trademark Association, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and is the sole author of Biotechnology and the Law, now in its twenty-somethingth edition. In his spare time, he teaches swing and folk dancing, and participates in local photo club competitions. Cooper is married with a son and daughter.

Praise for 1636: Seas of Fortune: “. . . expand[s] the Ring of Fire universe into new or previously limited geography and culture. ‘Stretching Out’ includes seven excellent entries mostly in South America and the Carribean build on real events but with a nice Grantville twist. ‘Rising Sun’ contains five terrific tales . . . also built on real events enhanced by historical speculation but with a nice Grantville twist.” —Alternate Worlds