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...ter|}}Abraham “Bram” Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for discovering the phenomenon of [[proxy jetlag]] (thoug

...time ago. Liked a cig, apparently.}}}}Not at all fictional, but rather the author of excellent fiction, including the ''Misleading Cases'' collected in ''[[U

{{a|author|{{image|Jane Jacobs|jpg|}}}}One of the [[JC]]’s special extra uber-heroes

:—{{author|Ambrose Bierce}}, {{br|The Devil’s Dictionary}}}}

:—{{author|Douglas Adams}}}}

:—{{author|John le Carré}}}} The part of language that those who see great things for

Made famous by the late great {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}} in his neo-Darwinist-bunking paper ''[[media:The Spandr

...[boilerplate]], like a [[counterparts]] clause or something — entitles its author to showboat before the deal-team, like a footballer striker’s post-goal [

}}Better known, [[as any fule kno]], as [[hary poter]], {{author|J.K. Rowling}}’s universe, which owes much to world of the grate n. moles

...e late Dentarthurdent,” said the old man, sternly. </ref> greatly lamented author of {{hhgg}}, {{raeou}} and other minor comic gems like ''The Meaning of Lif

...has an [https://thetimeblawg.com/chatbots/ excellent series] in which its author, the redoubtable Brian Inkster, valiantly tries to engage with chatbots. We

*{{author|Lawrence Lessig}}

{{A|myth|}}It is said that Children’s author Monica Dickens, on a book tour in Australia in 1964 promoting ''The Room Up

{{g}}A coinage of fabulously argumentative writer {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} in {{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

...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 sa

These days, a computer, but as {{author|Daniel Dennett}} ably demonstrated, any process which runs an [[algorithm]]

...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</ref

...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}}.

...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. He

}}{{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 t