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Hey there. I think this article is off-topic. It should be focused on the book itself, not sections copied from other articles about the engineers featured in the book. Some good resources might be Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction (even though this is not a work of fiction). You might want to take a look at some other popular-science-book articles like A Brief History of Time or Cosmos, both of which have reasonably long summaries, but focus on other aspects of the book like publication history, critical reception, effects on pop culture, etc. Most importantly, try to find references about the book, not about engineers or structures mentioned in the book. Regards. Braincricket (talk) 08:22, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've cut the major biography sections and replaced it with a complete list of the 32 engineers listed in the book, after finding an index page on Amazon. A sentence per engineer seems like plenty, given that we're wikilinking to full articles about each one. (I've tracked most of them down, but there are a few redlinks where articles don't seem to exist yet.) --McGeddon (talk) 10:45, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]