Jim Baen's Universe

Authors | Iver P. Cooper

Iver P. Cooper, an intellectual property law attorney, lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two children. Two cats and a chinchilla rule the household with iron paws. Iver 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. He has frequently contributed both fiction and nonfiction to JBU's sister publication, The Grantville Gazette, but "S.S. Sunbeam" is his first submission to Jim Baen's Universe.

It is based on research he did for an (unpublished, alas) book manuscript on the history and science of mirrors. When not writing (or trying to get an "orange blob" off his chair so he can start writing), he has been known to teach swing dancing and folk dancing, or to compete in local photo club competitions. Iver adds, "I can't get my wife to read my fiction, but she has no trouble cashing the checks."

S.S. Sunbeam Full Story From: A new Age of Sail is dawning. One in which the ships sail through outer space, not on water; and are propelled by the sunlight, not wind.