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Aug 1Liked by Alex Wellerstein

"Darkness" is amazing--managing to combine two of my favorite things, post-apocalyptic fiction and Romantic poetry. It's the only poem that's managed to genuinely frighten me!

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The Rest is History podcast recently did a series covering the life of Lord Byron that was highly illuminating

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Since you have not yet mentioned it, I will take the liberty to do so: nuclear famine.

I assume most of your readers know the term. If not, they could do worse than visit www.nuclearfamine.org

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John Valliant’s book Fire Weather contains excellent descriptions and explanations of how fire works.

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