Plant Engineering

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/>.

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

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/>.