{"title":"Iver P. Cooper","description":"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 \u0026amp; 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.","products":[{"product_id":"1637-the-pacific-initiative-mass-market-paperbound","title":"1637: The Pacific Initiative - Mass Market Paperbound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRING OF FIRE SERIES ENTRY FROM IVER P. COOPER SET IN THE AMERICAS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fire, strands the West Virginia town of Grantville back in time in the middle of the Thirty Years War. One of its ripple effects is that Japan has pulled back from a policy of isolation and staked out its own claims on the west coast of North America. But it is not the only power interested in that part of the New World, and the native Americans have also responded, in different ways, to the unexpected colonists. And there are conflicts among the colonists themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn settling the fate of this part of the New World, a few remarkable individuals have an outsize role to play: Oyamada Isamu, a samurai on his first independent command; Yells-at-Bears, a young native woman of Vancouver Island; Father Blanco, a Jesuit priest and former missionary; and Iroha Data-hime, the daughter of the Grand Governor of New Nippon.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102258172127,"sku":"9781668073117","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uO7VxVHzgl9781668073117.webp?v=1781079235"},{"product_id":"eric-flints-1632-beyond-special-issue-2-paperback","title":"Eric Flint's 1632 \u0026 Beyond Special Issue #2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a reissue of the second half of A 1632 Christmas, . The first half is Special Issue 1 from November 2024. Jackie Britton Lopatin's \"Grantville's Secret Santa\" tells how Grantville changed one woman's once-bleak future to fulfillment. In Chuck Thompson's \"The Gift,\" Inez Wiley convinces her down-time friends not to leave her. Mark Huston's \"At Christmas Time\" follows a simple letter and its impact. Sarah Hay's \"No Proper Carol\" follows a search for hard to find up-time music. Edith Wild's \"A Christmas Stollen\" tells more of Amalia's story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leaving Grantville, John Deakin's tale \"At the Schickelmans'\" follows their first Christmas celebration in the New World. In \"Santa's Lapp\" by George Haberberger, a man tells his people what he learned of their future up-time. \"Natala\" by Iver Cooper sees a Christmas play in Califonia. \"One Night Only\" by Michael Lockwood tells of a special performance at the Magdeburg Opera House. \"Sad Spectacles\" by Eric Flint and Lucille Robbins shows how new ideas can blow up even the most entrenched paths. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The final tale addresses one of the key questions of modern Christmas: Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Spoiler: yes, it is.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103797416159,"sku":"9781962398206","price":13.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7nkKoe9EzT9781962398206.webp?v=1781097645"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/iver-p-cooper.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}