Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History includes an Order of Planetary Engineers.
Larry Niven's second Ringworld novel is The Ringworld Engineers.
Clifford Simak wrote Cosmic Engineers.
CS Lewis called hard sf "the Engineer's Story."
Colin Kapp wrote the Unorthodox Engineers stories.
A review of a Kapp collection informs us that one downside of puzzle-solving sf is the protagonist figuring the problem but not revealing the solution until the end of the story. I have commented on David Falkayn and other Anderson characters doing this.
Where would we be without the Engineers?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But puzzle/problem solving stories has to have the solutions to their problems revealed only at the end of the stories. Many readers would prefer to see how the characters worked out the solutions or try to figure them out themselves. It would spoil these stories to reveal solutions too soon.
And that also applies to mysteries.
Ad astra! Sean
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