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From: "Greene, Carlton" <CGreene2@hunton.com> Subject: RE: (urth) Plant Engineering Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:59:41 Thanks! I assumed that was the case from his poetic descriptions of engineering concepts, but given Dorcas and her flowers, and a hundred other examples, he seems to know his plant matter as well. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin J. Maroney [mailto:kmaroney@ungames.com] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 11:27 AM To: urth@lists.best.com Subject: Re: (urth) Plant Engineering At 09:02 AM 8/24/00 -0400, Carlton Greene wrote: >Can anyone provide some background on the journal Gene Wolfe edits >(edited?), "Plant Engineering" ? In particular, is it "plant engineering" >as in horticulture, or as in industrial facilities? Industrial facilities. Before he retired to become a full-time writer in the 1980s, Wolfe was a "food engineer" for Proctor and Gamble and then a staff writer for PE. One of Wolfe's PE articles--a vocabulary for robotics--is reprinted in his Boskone book, _Plan[e]t Engineering_; his background shows through in things like the lecture about tallus design in _Exodus from the Long Sun_. _Plant Engineering Magazine_'s home page is at <http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/planteng/>. -- Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney@ungames.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://www.nyrsf.com works *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/ ranjit@best.com whorl@lists.best.com *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/