Thanks to The Collagist for including an excerpt from Fram in their January issue:

Rumor had it the lightbulb was already there when the Bureau of Ice Prognostication was founded at the height of the Cold War—the first one, the one that was actually cold, not the one with the bombs and Berlin Wall that came later. Oscar had held that line ready for years in case he was ever allowed to talk about what he did for a living.

And thanks to The Good Men Project for sharing a different excerpt this weekend:

He stood in the living room he shared with his wife, surrounded by three yellow walls where his built-in bookshelves of National Geographic reached floor to ceiling: every issue since his birth and most of the earlier ones, though not quite all the way back to 1888. Any issue with even the briefest bit of Arctic lore was marked by a red sticker dot on the spine so he could find them when needed, though he probably could have pulled down whatever issue he wanted to find a specific passage or report from the Pole just by remembering where in the room he’d found it before.