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{{Short description|2014 anthology of stories by Iver Cooper}}
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'''1636: Seas of Fortune''' is an anthology of short stories written by Iver Cooper and set in the [[1632 series]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uchronia.net/label/flinassiti.html|title=Uchronia: The Assiti Shards (1632) Series|website=www.uchronia.net}}</ref> The anthology was released in the United States on January 7, 2014. It is divided into two roughly equal novella-length parts, ''Stretching Out'' and ''Rising Sun''. Each part ("braid") consists of several linked ("braided") short stories, seven in the case of ''Stretching Out'' and five in ''Rising Sun''. The compilation was published in trade paperback in 2014 and in mass market paperback in 2015. The book received moderate reviews,<ref>As of June 1, 2015, there were 199 ratings on www.goodreads.com, with an average rating of 3.54 (5 point scale) and 90 customer reviews on www.amazon.com, with an average rating of 3.7. See also "Literary significance and reception" below.</ref> with respectable sales.<ref name=locus /> ''Stretching Out'' is set in northern South America and the [[Caribbean]] while ''Rising Sun'' is set in Japan, in the North Pacific, and on the west coast of North America.
Six of the seven ''Stretching Out'' stories were previously released electronically in the online version of the [[Grantville Gazettes|Grantville Gazette]] in serial form, starting with Volume 11 and continuing in six installments until Volume 21. This part contains two threads, one centering on Maria Vorst, a Grantville-trained downtimer who heads an expedition to what is now [[Suriname]] to set up a colony that could export rubber, bauxite, minerals, tropical products, and other natural resources that are not obtainable in Europe, but are necessary for sustaining Grantville's industrial development, and the other thread centers on Henrique Pereira da Costa, a Portuguese [[Marrano]] (secret Jew), and his half-brother indentured servant Maurício, who initially are roaming the jungles of [[Brazil]] in search for rubber trees.
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==Literary significance and reception==
The reviewer for SFRevu wrote that "This is a rare collection from a shared universe. There is a fairly low bar to entry as none of the action is truly dependent upon the main action of the Ring of Fire series... Cooper is exploring a part of the world that has been rarely mentioned."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=15021 |title=1636: Seas of Fortune by Iver P. Cooper |website=SFRevu |date=7 January 2014 |first=Bill |last=Lawhorn}}</ref> The [[Midwest Book Review]] writes "Both segues expand the Ring of Fire universe into new or previously limited geography and culture" and "built on real events enhanced by historical speculation but with a nice Grantville twist."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/mar_14.htm |title=MBR Bookwatch |periodical=[[Midwest Book Review]] |date=March 2014 |volume=13 |number=3}}</ref> Although he "strongly recommends" the book, the reviewer for the ''Fistful of Wits'' wrote that he "had not expected it to be a series of mostly interconnected short stories" and that, as could "be expected in a collection of short stories like this one," it didn't tell the whole story of any of the characters involved." Nonetheless, he added that he "liked the settings, liked the characters, and liked where Cooper took them both."
1636: Seas of Fortune barely missed getting listed on the [[Locus (magazine)|Locus]] Trade Paperback List in 2014, but did well enough to be labeled as a runner-up.<ref name=locus>{{cite news |url=http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2014/04/locus-bestsellers-april-2/ |title=Locus Bestsellers, April 2014 |magazine=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]] |date=April 2014}}</ref>
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