For all you people that expected something by Leslie Lamport, yesterday I learned something very interesting:

Apparently, after the success of the Byzantine Generals paper, his Paxos paper was written as the description of an ancient Greek democracy. Paxos is not initials as I thought but the name of the island described in the paper. His editor didn't like the humor and didn't publish, and the paper was only published years later, after it reached some other researchers and had a lot of impact on the field, in the guise of a "recently rediscovered ancient manuscript".

http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#lamport-paxo...