{"product_id":"engineers-john-mack","title":"The Engineers - John Mack","description":"\u003cp\u003eCanadian independent author \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/heritageforge.ca\/authors\/john-mack\" title=\"Author Website\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJohn Wesley Mack\u003c\/a\u003e has 6 books available through this website, for more information and more books (including Children's books) check out his home page!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e___________________________________________________________________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor generations, the Engineers have kept the Facility running.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore than two million people live within its levels. Machines are maintained. Food is produced. Work orders move through the system. Problems travel upward through technicians, engineers, managers, directors and, eventually, the Council.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEveryone has a job.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEveryone knows how the system works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen one machine stops.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClarence Ender is a mechanical engineer from the lower levels, where problems are dirty, immediate and difficult to ignore. When a routine production failure refuses to stay routine, Clarence is drawn upward through a world he has spent his life supporting but has never truly seen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlong the way, he discovers something uncomfortable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe people above are not incompetent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe people below are not unreasonable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd everyone is doing exactly what the system taught them to do.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs one small problem grows into something capable of affecting an entire civilization, Clarence and those around him must learn that solving a technical failure may be easier than repairing the assumptions that allowed it to become one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBecause sometimes the most important question isn't whether a system is working.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's whether anyone still remembers why.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Engineers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a science-fiction story about engineering, bureaucracy, communication, and the enormous consequences of small things.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheBookstoreOnPluto","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68003207086295,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/6819\/3947\/files\/engineers1.jpg?v=1794005505","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookstoreonpluto.ca\/products\/engineers-john-mack","provider":"TheBookstoreOnPluto","version":"1.0","type":"link"}