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The Door into Summer
by: Robert A. Heinlein

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345413994
ISBN: 0345413997
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: June 17, 1997
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: June 17, 1997
Studio: Del Rey
Sales Rank: 266072

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"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world. He remains today as a sort of trademark for all that is finest in American imaginative fiction."
--Stephen King

Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in which Dan will awaken has mastered time travel, giving him a way to get back to them--and at them . . .

Once again, the author of Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers displays his genius. The Door in to Summer proves why Robert Heinlein's books have sold more than 50 million copies, winning countless awards, and earning him the title of Grand Master of Science Fiction.

"Heinlein . . . has the ability to see technologies just around the bend. That, combined with his outstanding skill as a writer and engineer-inventor, produces books that are often years ahead of their time."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

"One of the grandmasters of science fiction."
--The Wall Street Journal

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- A+++
Lots of good solid positve reviews here. So I will just say: Soooo good!

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- An interesting window into Heinlein's vision for the year 2001...
The Door Into Summer was first published in 1956. It involves a "futuristic" inventor in 1970 who, for a variety of reasons, is put into "cold sleep" until the year 2000. The plot itself involves love, betrayal, inventiveness, robotics, and time travel.

The interesting thing about this book is Robert Heinlein's view of the future. The year 2000 has conquered gravity, making the propulsion of large objects easy. Gold is very cheap. The Six Weeks War rendered some parts of the world uninhabitable. However, CAD programs are very primitive (the main character, D. B. Davis, is an engineer/inventor). "Thinking machines" (computers) aren't obvious, and world-wide access to information is really limited to asking for records to be searched and hiring private investigators.
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- Engineer as ideal man
From a personal standpoint I rate it a 5. I recall it fondly from childhood and have enjoyed rereading it multiple times since.

As fiction, a 3. Good story, clean writing, some nice phrases and ideas.

Mostly, it is a period piece now. A view to the gee-whiz feeling of the 50s that honest American engineering -- specifically not science -- could solve any problem.

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- Time Travel, Love Affair, Romance, and an inquisitive Cat
This novel is a blast to read. One that you will remember long after you put it down. I'm talking about years. I wish i could read it again for the first time. It's 2008 as i write this, the book's fifty years old, so i'm reading a book about the future but that future is now our past, which allows the reader to judge how accuate Heinlein was about his science fiction predictions. We humans aren't known for our futurism.
Science fiction writes are certainly better at spotting trends than bankers and economists, but they're not that great either. The Door Into Summer is a fabulous read, a great book. Cat lovers, stock brokers, presidents should all read it.

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- Two different forms of time travel in one story!
"Door into Summer" is excellent, "hard" science fiction. I give it only four stars because Heinlein soon started writing at an incredibly high peak level of writing abilities. I read this novel in the 1950's or 1960's (Hey! You try to remember when you first read each of fifty plus books!) and it has held up very well over more than forty years.

Here, Heinlein suggests his version of CAD/CAM, ten or twenty years before the first CAD program. Not Bad! As for robots, we are running very far behind Heinlein's schedule! And, I could point at another dozen technical thoughts that were decades ahead of real science and technology.

Strongly advised for those who are new to Robert Heinlein's writing! This is a very absorbing tale and should have been made into a movie, ... Read More

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