Global shortfall in nuclear weapons to continue?

Iran committed to halt the expansion of its uranium enrichment program and not to press ahead with its Arak reactor or related plutonium program, the United States said on Sunday describing a nuclear agreement between Tehran and six major world powers.

Israeli reaction falls short of overwhelming optimism.

Last night

Ibid turned on my radio at 3 AM, changed the time on my clock, turned my CPAP off and somehow convinced the aloof Fig to curl up with him - on my chest.

I've slept better, is what I am saying.

Rob Ford Big Win

For cities that aren't Toronto.

Since when is popular SF opposed to genocide?

Rather alarmed by The Day of the Doctor's rejection of established tropes.

Adventurer Conquerer King: Session Nineteen

This was mostly - pretty much entirely - one big fight.

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The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: 1997 (fourth quarter)

Lists courtesy of Andrew Wheeler.

Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/

I am sorry but mostly Q4 of 1997 seems to have been an almost complete wash for me.

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I had no idea

As pointed out in email, JEP on evolution.

Clarkesworld Podcast April 2012: Draftyhouse (Erik Amundsen)

Draftyhouse (Erik Amundsen)

Read by Kate Baker

The lone occupant of a lunar structure ominously named "the Draftyhouse" contemplates its purpose.

I found my attention wandered a bit from this as I waited for the plot to accrete.

Escape: Confession (Algernon Blackwood)

Confession (Algernon Blackwood)

A war veteran recovering from battle fatigue has an extremely disturbing encounter in the London fog. A passing doctor soon offers him an ear and comforting words; ultimately this will prove the most disturbing encounter of all.

Algernon Blackwood was very well known and admired in his day and in the context of his usual subject matter, it is not impossible this is all a ghost story, another variation on this familiar story:

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