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- ...time ago. Liked a cig, apparently.}}}}Not at all fictional, but rather the author of excellent fiction, including the ''Misleading Cases'' collected in ''[[U610 bytes (92 words) - 15:33, 9 April 2024
- {{a|author|{{image|Jane Jacobs|jpg|}}}}One of the [[JC]]’s special extra uber-heroes644 bytes (102 words) - 18:36, 17 April 2023
- :—{{author|Ambrose Bierce}}, {{br|The Devil’s Dictionary}}}}824 bytes (120 words) - 18:51, 25 January 2023
- :—{{author|Douglas Adams}}}}729 bytes (124 words) - 11:43, 14 December 2020
- :—{{author|John le Carré}}}} The part of language that those who see great things for723 bytes (126 words) - 22:22, 14 December 2020
- Made famous by the late great {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}} in his neo-Darwinist-bunking paper ''[[media:The Spandr601 bytes (98 words) - 09:50, 27 March 2024
- }}Better known, [[as any fule kno]], as [[hary poter]], {{author|J.K. Rowling}}’s universe, which owes much to world of the grate n. moles726 bytes (113 words) - 18:55, 17 April 2023
- ...e late Dentarthurdent,” said the old man, sternly. </ref> greatly lamented author of {{hhgg}}, {{raeou}} and other minor comic gems like ''The Meaning of Lif752 bytes (113 words) - 23:53, 12 December 2020
- ...has an [https://thetimeblawg.com/chatbots/ excellent series] in which its author, the redoubtable Brian Inkster, valiantly tries to engage with chatbots. We920 bytes (145 words) - 15:28, 22 February 2023
- *{{author|Lawrence Lessig}}600 bytes (92 words) - 12:53, 13 April 2024
- {{A|myth|}}It is said that Children’s author Monica Dickens, on a book tour in Australia in 1964 promoting ''The Room Up547 bytes (86 words) - 08:49, 22 May 2023
- {{g}}A coinage of fabulously argumentative writer {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} in {{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder754 bytes (103 words) - 18:34, 31 October 2022
- ...in East Finchley to buy a copy of the gorgeous Folio Society edition of {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}’s {{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}} which I sa767 bytes (131 words) - 15:43, 30 October 2020
- These days, a computer, but as {{author|Daniel Dennett}} ably demonstrated, any process which runs an [[algorithm]]681 bytes (97 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2023
- ...ks with titles like “how the laws of physics lie” - not exactly from the {{author|Carl Sagan}} playbook, after all. However, despite certain allegations to t ...faculty for expounding difficult concepts — such as that possessed by a {{author|Daniel Dennett}}<ref>A philosopher who otherwise suffers in comparison</ref3 KB (573 words) - 17:39, 25 March 2021
- ...ensible explanation for this book - the Brian May in this case being not {{author|Bram Stoker}}, but his great grand-nephew, Dacre. Perhaps the Stoker litera ...how interested you’d be in “MacBeth II” written by a distant relative of {{author|William Shakespeare}}.6 KB (960 words) - 19:46, 17 April 2021
- ...ok review|}}{{br|The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} is, in equal parts, enthralling and infuriating. He6 KB (1,057 words) - 15:43, 24 December 2020
- ...[boilerplate]], like a [[counterparts]] clause or something — entitles its author to showboat before the deal-team, like a footballer striker’s post-goal [717 bytes (102 words) - 17:10, 13 June 2024
- }}{{author|Roland Ennos}}: {{br|The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Hum ...ve. There is not a human life in history it has not profoundly affected. {{author|Roland Ennos}}’s excellent book asks whether we are not perhaps missing t4 KB (619 words) - 20:18, 16 March 2021
- ...ut out the sex, however joyless and mechanical its depiction may be — is {{author|George Orwell}}’s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''.942 bytes (135 words) - 08:31, 29 October 2022