Recent content by Moonstruck

I don't have any intelligent input to add, as I know nothing about the period in question, but I just thought I'd say that you're a fantastic writer and single-handedly responsible for wrecking my sleep schedule recently by means of 'Just One More Page' syndrome. It's been a joy to discover...

Depending on how exactly trans-Saharan exchanges work out - which I know absolutely nothing about - I think that the existence of anything recognizable as 'Carthage' is far from sure. Indeed, just by merit of the PoD being as early as it is, the classical Mediterranean as a whole may well be far...

-pation) Oh, well. I suppose they can't all be Malê Rising length :p Really, though, the thing about the Nok only lasting a limited time makes a lot of sense, and its quite nice to have timelines where states cease to exist as well. It's also interesting to see a timeline which has already...

Given the human limits to eloquence, and my many failings as a writer, I can do naught but echo what wiser people than me have said: Yes! (Trying to be slightly more constructive, I absolutely love neolithic timelines, and while I would normally recoil at the thought of having to try to...

I think part of the reason why I'm so fond of reading Malê Rising, is the way in which you seem to be able to emphasize with such a myriad of different people, and authentically present the world as they would see it. Myself, I'm very much a product of my time and my position in society, and I...

That actually brings to mind a fairly interesting question. How exactly do the post-Westphalian regional authorities handle matters of, say, large-scale infrastructure of various kinds? It's my understanding that most places IOTL such things would generally be funded by means of taxes not...

I'm sorry, I think there's a bit of a difference between industrialized murder and the death toll of war.

I'd say - as I would with most things - that what you need to focus on is broader society. Certain things which were simply not present in "ancient times" would be crucial to this process, in my opinion. You need a large, educated base. A single institution of learning will create monolithic...

Liberté, Egalité et les Malês! Hearing about the recent going-ons in France has made me a very happy camper. It's always a pleasure to read your work, Mr. Edelstein, but I have a particular fondness for left-wing futurism, and this is the only place I've seen it incorporated in a story - It is...

Apropos of nothing, I don't suppose would've been any notable advances in LGBTQ(-and-so-forth) rights in the twenty-one years since we last asked? I realize that, with the recession and all, right now might not be the best time to ask (The Imperialist Party certainly won't be Allies :rolleyes...

Regardless of whichever technological capabilities various groups might have possessed with regards to crossing the Atlantic in the first place, the much more relevant question of what on earth would possess them to attempt colonization in the first place remains. The effort to create a...

A suitably non-alcoholic toast to Usman: To a person who brought much good into this world, and to his ideals, may they live on in the minds of generations to come. As always, the writing has been more-or-less spotless; the characters are engaging and the prose is so fluid that you scarcely...

Ech, that's going to be a lot of countries at some point. Just imagine the chaos that will be flagpoles outside major international organization buildings... I'm looking forward to the possibility of Vernes getting more influence, politically. I've always been fascinated by the Futurist...

As a totally objective bystander, start at the beginning, it's worth it. But to paraphrase someone else's summary, developments in the Brazilian slave population lead to changes back in western Africa, which brings about the spark of a heavily liberal form of Islamic political theory, which...

There is no way this could possibly go wrong. I'll be looking forward to when it does :)