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| The Door Into Summer |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
| Gollancz SF Collectors' Editions, 2000 £9.99 ISBN 0 57507 054 4 |
Review by Gwyneth Box  |
| First published in the 1950's, this is Heinlein at his best: true science fiction, but with a strong human element. When Dan Davis loses his fiancée, his business partner and his business all at once, he is left with nothing except money and his cat Petronius the Arbiter (Pete.) He decides to take 'the Long Sleep' -suspended animation - with Pete, to get away from events and people that have made his life go sour. However, things don't turn out as planned, and when he wakes up thirty years into the future, he finds Pete isn't with him. Not only that, but it seems that the household robots that he invented are now in common use everywhere, and somehow they have been patented in his own name. There are obviously things which still need to be done in the past in order for this bright new future to be possible. So Dan has to find a way to travel back and rescue Pete, and sort out the paradoxes. As usual, Heinlein makes the science plausible and the story gripping. |
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