1636 Seas of Fortune Ring of Fire Series Book 15 eBook Iver Cooper
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A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, the up-timers and their allies take on continental America and the Japan!
A cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fire, strands the West Virginia town of Grantville in the middle of Europe during the Thirty Years War. The repercussions of that event transform Europe and, in a few years, begin spreading across the world. By 1636, the Ring of Fire's impact is felt across two great oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific.
Stretching Out The United States of Europe seeks out resources -- oil, rubber and even aluminum ore -- to help it wage war against the foes of freedom. Daring pioneers cross the Atlantic and found a new colony on the Wild Coast of South America. The colonists hope that with the up-timers' support and knowledge they can prosper in the tropics without resort to Indian and African slavery. Then a slave ship visits the colony, seeking water.... and the colonists must make a fateful choice.
Rising Sun In 1633, the wave of change emanating from the Ring of Fire reaches Japan. The Shogun is intrigued by samples of up-time technology, but it's a peek at what fate had in store for Japan in the old time line that has the greatest impact -- setting events in motion whose tremors are felt thousands of miles away and for years to come, as Japan pulls back from a policy of isolation and stakes out its own claim in the brave new world created by the Ring.
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About Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series
“This alternate history series is…a landmark…”—Booklist
“[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist
“…reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis…”—Publishers Weekly
Iver Cooper has been an active contributor to Eric Flint's Ring of Fire universe, with 22 short stories and 40 articles published so far in the online Grantville Gazette, and another short story in the hardcover anthology Ring of Fire II. 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-something 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.
1636 Seas of Fortune Ring of Fire Series Book 15 eBook Iver Cooper
1636: Seas of FortuneThe now gigantic body of work connected with Eric Flint's successful time travel Ring of Fire series has yet another volume, this one by Iver P. Cooper. This work has two unrelated tales placed between the same cover. Each is actually long enough to be a stand alone novel but we get both Stretching Out and The Rising Sun in a single book.
Cooper's has a strong strength in his meticulous scholarship, which of course we admire and find interesting and useful. In Stretching Out we learn a great deal about the geography,flora and fauna of the upper Amazon region in South America and the near by areas which in our time line became Dutch, British and French Guiana. He also brings in plenty of sociological descriptions of the cultures of the native Indians, various African cultures and of course the contending European cultures. All to the good.
His second story, The Rising Sun, posits a Japanese solution to the Christian problem. The Japanese decide to ship off their bothersome Christian citizens to California rather than to simply execute them. His style follows the other book. He has carefully researched and explained the ins and outs of Japanese politics, religion and culture. He uses the very foreign to us Japanese system to present a story that seems very reasonable. We can believe that Japan might well adopt the policies that he suggests. His scholarship of the climate and livable resources in and about Monterrey and the Bay Area also stand up well.
He does fall into the author's trap of telling the story rather than showing the story, which readers find much less compelling. He has plenty of interesting characters doing interesting things but he writes at a distance, describing their actions rather than allowing them to act out the story.
Cooper does give fans two broad new areas of the world to think about in the wider 1632 universe.
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1636 Seas of Fortune Ring of Fire Series Book 15 eBook Iver Cooper Reviews
Europe is where the Ring incident occurred and the main subject of the series. But what about the rest of the world. This is a collection of stories incorporating South America and Japan into the series. Well written and very enjoyable. Recommend.
The timeline changes are now spreading to South America and California. In would-be Guyana, Grantville-inspired Dutch settlers try to fit in while accommodating some English colonists, various local Indian groups and a bunch of recently freed African slaves. Now if they could only deal with the neighbouring Spanish / Portuguese outposts before the newly established French American Empire butts in. In Tokugawa Japan, the shogun takes a leave from the up-time history books seclusion will not work so he decides to "export" its troublesome Christians by launching a colonization effort aimed at the American West Coast New Nippon aka California. Both accounts are handled in a fairly realistic fashion some things go well, others not so well with the rest falling in the middle. The follow-ups will be interesting to watch.
This is a book that looks to be made of a set of short stories writen at different times for one of the ring of fire publications. The problem is it makes the flow from section to section clunky. I understand that the author would like to make some money but perhaps some editing with an eye toward continuity and smoothness would make a better read. As it is there are a number of sections that are filler that is flat. The way it is now, this book just isn't that good.
I am sure the names and family ties presented are correct and consistent, but following it got tedious. Too many vectors of the butterfly's flight were presented - none followed in enough detail to satisfy my expectation of character development. This was too much for one book. I am sure the author could transform these splinters into at least a 6 to 10 book series! Yep! That would make me happy!
I read the introduction, in which Cooper refers to his stories as 'braids' to distinguish them from mere short stories. Having finished reading I confess to call this a distinction without a difference. The level of technical detail is quite good, as is the sense of period, and the main characters are often interesting in a self-involved sort of fashion, but the stories themselves take a very long time to get anywhere and the read itself is rather painful. I keep thinking that I'd like it better if I listened to it, when reading just made me want to fast forward. I didn't quite dislike it, but I'm likely to avoid Cooper's contributions in future, not because he's a bad writer but rather because his style just doesn't resonate with me.
The first part of the book was much easier to follow as it was set in the Caribbean and had more relatable characters and settings.
Perhaps the problem I had with the last half of the book was simply my lack of knowledge about Japanese history and culture. Some of the description confused me more than it helped, and while I am glad I read the book, the California settlement doesn't have the same appeal to me as the European or even the Caribbean tales.
Luckily, the next book in the ROF universe is set in more familiar geography...
If all you read of the Ring of Fire series is the books, this may be an OK read for you. If you read the Grantville Gazette series, now up to volume 52 or something close to that, you've already read most of the book. (Grantville Gazette is a "monthly" e-zine format publication featuring reader submissions. Most are pretty good and a few of the writers have become writers or co-writers of books in the primary Ring of Fire series.) Since I read both series, I feel pretty much ripped off at buying again what I had already purchased. For those of you wondering, I saw nothing on the site, nor on the Baen Publishing site, to tell me this was essentially an anthology of Grantville Gazette stories.
1636 Seas of Fortune
The now gigantic body of work connected with Eric Flint's successful time travel Ring of Fire series has yet another volume, this one by Iver P. Cooper. This work has two unrelated tales placed between the same cover. Each is actually long enough to be a stand alone novel but we get both Stretching Out and The Rising Sun in a single book.
Cooper's has a strong strength in his meticulous scholarship, which of course we admire and find interesting and useful. In Stretching Out we learn a great deal about the geography,flora and fauna of the upper region in South America and the near by areas which in our time line became Dutch, British and French Guiana. He also brings in plenty of sociological descriptions of the cultures of the native Indians, various African cultures and of course the contending European cultures. All to the good.
His second story, The Rising Sun, posits a Japanese solution to the Christian problem. The Japanese decide to ship off their bothersome Christian citizens to California rather than to simply execute them. His style follows the other book. He has carefully researched and explained the ins and outs of Japanese politics, religion and culture. He uses the very foreign to us Japanese system to present a story that seems very reasonable. We can believe that Japan might well adopt the policies that he suggests. His scholarship of the climate and livable resources in and about Monterrey and the Bay Area also stand up well.
He does fall into the author's trap of telling the story rather than showing the story, which readers find much less compelling. He has plenty of interesting characters doing interesting things but he writes at a distance, describing their actions rather than allowing them to act out the story.
Cooper does give fans two broad new areas of the world to think about in the wider 1632 universe.
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