Have none of these people read The Masque of the Red Death? You can’t hide from infections diseases for long, no matter your wealth or status.

Terry Pratchett
Agatha Christie
Douglas Adams
John Le Carre
EF Benson
Charles Dickens
John Buchan
Ian Rankin
Arthur C Clarke
Isaac Asimov
Anthony Trollope
Georges Simenon
PG Wodehouse
JRR Tolkien
Aldous Huxley
Jane Austen
Quentin Jardine
Raymond Chandler
John Mortimer

This could be a way in - www.thecognizer.com/post/on-the-...
It mentions “David Marr, Sydney Brenner, Francis Crick, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert, Stephen Blomfield, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel, Horace B. Barlow, and more.”

The entire NCBI and NIH websites are offline/gone!?!?

All the research papers, gone!!!!

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

www.nih.gov

Lovely! A little bit earlier was Margaret Dayhoff’s Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure. It has all the sequences printed together 😉 and some lovely structures, the definition of mutation data matrices and sequence databases. 1st edition was 1965

Search on abebook.com for ISBN 9781319381493. Selling for around $100.

I can’t be certain, but it looks a little like Richard Ambler. It’s the right sort of time too.