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Originally Posted by radius
The recent threads mentioning Leo Frankowski and John Ringo have made me crave some male wish fulfillment reading 
I think the sort of book I'm looking for is early Crosstime Engineer style where a man changes society via his engineering skills and women throw themselves at his feet. |
From you later comments, you want/require the story line to stop at the point the women throw themselves at the men's feet & not tell you anything after that point. This usually doesn't happen in any fiction I'm familiar with short of a John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara movie.
Good luck.
On the other hand if you let the woman be the brilliant one you might try some of Jean Auel's "prehistoric" books (the Earth's Children series). IMO the second in the series is the best (The Valley of Horses). The first mainly provides background & the 4th & 5th run out of story to tell. The 3rd is pretty good. I actually read them in the order 2nd, 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th which seemed to me to be a good order.
It (the 2nd & later) does have a strong, male, inventive character that women somewhat throw themselves at (especially in the 2nd).