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Originally Posted by issybird
I liked Shute when I was younger...
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I won't claim Shute as the best literature, but maybe as the best literature from a professional engineer?
See: "Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer"
Edit: And of course "No Highway" was prescient.
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Originally Posted by issybird
As for Michener, I have to confess with embarrassment...
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No need to be embarrassed. Most of his books start, "About a zillion years ago there was a rock..." and progresses for a thousand pages. I wish that he'd get around to explaining the backstory and motivation of the rock sometime.