Also recommend The Book of the Long Sun and its sequel, set loosely in the same universe as Book of the New Sun. He was an industrial engineer by training, and

Also recommend The Book of the Long Sun and its sequel, set loosely in the same universe as Book of the New Sun. He was an industrial engineer by training, and was a senior editor on the staff of the journal Plant Engineering. This always tickles me given how that has to be the absolute nether pole of his own writing.