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Table of Contents Preface Contents STRETCHING OUT Amazon Adventure Second Starts Maria’s Mission Beyond the Line Riding the Tiger King of the Jungle Tears of the Sun, Milk of the Moon THE RISING SUN Where the Cuckoo Flies Fallen Leaves Wild Geese Autumn Wind The Night Heron’s Scream Stretching Out Cast of Characters Rising Sun Cast of Characters AFTERWORD 1636: Seas of Fortune - eARC Iver P. Cooper Advance Reader Copy Unproofed The Ring of Fire series: 1632 by Eric Flint 1633 by Eric Flint & David Weber 1634: The Baltic War by Eric Flint & David Weber Ring of Fire ed. by Eric Flint 1634: The Galileo Affair by Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis 1634: The Ram Rebellion by Eric Flint with Virginia DeMarce 1634: The Bavarian Crisis by Eric Flint & Virginia DeMarce 1635: The Cannon Law by Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis Ring of Fire II ed. by Eric Flint 1635: The Dreeson Incident by Eric Flint & Virginia DeMarce Ring of Fire III ed. by Eric Flint Grantville Gazette ed. by Eric Flint Grantville Gazette II ed. by Eric Flint Grantville Gazette III ed. by Eric Flint Grantville Gazette IV ed. by Eric Flint Grantville Gazette V ed. by Eric Flint Time Spike by Eric Flint & Marilyn Kosmatka 1636: The Saxon Uprising by Eric Flint 1636: Kremlin Games by Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, Paula Goodlett 1636: The Devil’s Opera by Eric Flint and David Carrico 1636: Seas of Fortune by Iver P. Cooper 1636: Seas of Fortune This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. Note: Several of the stories in the “Stretching Out” section of this book were published, in slightly different form, in the online magazine Grantville Gazette, as follows: “Stretching Out, Part One: Second Starts,” Grantville Gazette, Volume 11, © 2007 by Iver P. Cooper; “Stretching Out, Part Two, Amazon Adventure,” Grantville Gazette, Volume 12, © 2007 by Iver P. Cooper; “Stretching Out, Part Three: Maria's Mission,” Grantville Gazette, Volume 14 © 2007 by Iver P. Cooper; “Stretching Out, Part Four: Beyond the Line,” Grantville Gazette, Volume 16; © 2008 by Iver Cooper; “Stretching Out, Part Five: Riding the Tiger,” Grantville Gazette, Volume 18, © 2008 by Iver P. Cooper; “Stretching Out, Part Six: King of the Jungle,” Grantville Gazette, Volume 21, © 2009 by Iver P. Cooper. Map 1 © 2014 by Iver P. Cooper and Gorg Huff, used by permission. Maps 2-6 © 2014 by Iver P. Cooper. The sources for the epigraphs for the stories in the Rising Sun section of this book are given in footnotes. Copyright © 2014 by Iver P. Cooper All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. A Baen Books Original Baen Publishing Enterprises P.O. Box 1403 Riverdale, NY 10471 www.baen.com ISBN: 978-1-4516-3939-1 Cover art by Tom Kidd First Baen printing, January 2014 Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: TK Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To my family: my parents Morris and Lillie Cooper, my wife Lee, and my children Jason and Louise. I thank Eric Flint for giving me the opportunity to participate in the development of the 1632 Universe. Preface The stories of 1636: Seas of Fortune are set in the alternate history universe created by Eric Flint, and introduced in his novel 1632. These stories reveal that the Ring of Fire, by hurling the town of Grantville from 2000 West Virginia to 1631 Germany, is affecting history in places as far away as Brazil and Japan. This isn’t a novel, and it isn’t a traditional short story anthology. It’s a braid, or, more precisely, two braids. The first, “Stretching Out,” presents seven short stories dealing with characters who find adventure on the other side of the Atlantic, in South America and the Caribbean. The stories are linked by recurring characters and locales, and overarching themes. The second, “Rising Sun,” presents another five linked short stories that reveal how the Japanese respond to the Ring of Fire. The braided story format allowed me some flexibility that I wouldn’t have in a novel; stories can overlap in time, and follow the activities of different lead characters. That works well for covering the branching of events natural to alternate history. On the other hand, braided stories have more of a sense of unity than a mere collection of short stories. I hope you like reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! —Iver Cooper Contents Stretching Out Map 1: Guianas and N. Amazon Amazon Adventure (Late 1632 to Fall 1634) Second Starts (May 1632 to July 1633) Maria’s Mission (September 1633 to Early 1634) Map 2A: Caribbean Map 2B: Raid on Granada Beyond the Line (April 1634 to Late 1634) Riding the Tiger (Late 1634 to February–March 1635) King of the Jungle (February–March 1635 to August 1635) Tears of the Sun, Milk of the Moon (Winter 1635 to Early 1637) The Rising Sun Where the Cuckoo Flies (February 1633 to January 1634) Map 3: North Pacific Map 4: Vancouver Island and Vicinity Fallen Leaves (February 1634 to August 1634) Map 5: SF and Monterey Bays Map 6: Gold Country Wild Geese (September 1634 to Fall 1635) Autumn Wind (September to October 1635) The Night Heron’s Scream (November 1635 to Fall 1636) Stretching Out: Cast of Characters Rising Sun: Cast of Characters AFTERWORD STRETCHING OUT
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