====== Jonathan Edelstein ======

An American member from Kew Gardens, New York. Born October 1971, married with cat, the senior partner in a three-person criminal law practice, and the author of a couple of published short stories and 15 articles in scholarly journals nobody reads.  

A participant in the old [[offtopic:soc.history.what-if]] newsgroup from 1995 until about 2005, co-creator of the now-defunct [[http://web.archive.org/web/20081219005951/http://www.ahtg.net/alterframe.html|Alternate History Travel Guide]], and creator of the non-AH.com TL //**[[http://www.anthonymayer.net/ah/spinoza/st1.html|Spinoza in Turkey]]**//. Currently working on the second draft of //**The Bull and the Dolphin**//, a non-AH novel about a Minoan in Egypt during the Hyksos period. He is one of AH.com's premier writers and has considerable literary prowess.

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==== Works ====

Jon has shown a clear interest for that all too rare beast of alternate history fiction - timelines and scenarios that [[timelines:list of countries by timeline#africa|are set in Africa]]. So far, he has introduced AH.com to three such intriguing scenarios : 

//**[[timelines:Malê Rising]]**// 

//**[[timelines:Four Scenes from São Tomé]]**//

//**[[timelines:Lo, the Nobles Lament, the Poor Rejoice]]**//

//**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=343483|African rice domesticated in fourth millennium BC]]**// - One of his newest projects, an [[timelines:agricultural timelines|agricultural timeline]] about the domestication of African rice.

//**[[timelines:Nok Steel]]**// - As well as an African timeline about alternate metallurgical developments, which won a Turtledove Award:

And he has also written an interesting little TL about [[Haiti]] staying separated into two countries since the [[timelines:19th century|early 19th century]] :

//**[[timelines:Stories From A Divided Haiti]]**// 

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