Plant Engineering

The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 24 Aug 2000
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Greene, Carlton24 Aug 2000, 09:02original
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?
Kevin J. Maroney24 Aug 2000, 11:26original

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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 at ungames.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://www.nyrsf.com
Greene, Carlton24 Aug 2000, 11:59original

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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 at ungames.com] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 11:27 AM To: urth at lists.best.com Subject: Re: (urth) Plant Engineering
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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 at ungames.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://www.nyrsf.com works

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