![]() I gave a runners-up prize to David Lindsley for his book ‘Far Point’ and he has continued writing. ![]() In 2000, I wrote about civil engineers in fiction (copies are still available!) and in 2005 I funded a one-off prize for the most favourable representation of a civil engineer in fiction – shared by Robert Harris for his book Pompeii, (though he never claimed it!) and the computer programming team behind Lara Croft, Tomb Raider Legends, who created a woman civil engineer as Lara’s sidekick in the Amazon rainforest. Doohan transferred the role to the Star Trek movies, evntually being followed by Simon Pegg. Star Trek -“I canna change the laws o’ physics, Cap’n” – Scotty, born 2222 in Linlithgow, and the Chief Engineer of USS Enterprise in the TV series, the accent chosen by actor James Doohan (pictured) because of the Scots in every ship’s engine room.
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