manufactures robot vacuum cleaners, but Dan had been developing a new line of all-purpose household robots, Flexible Frank, when Miles announces his intention to sell the company (and Flexible Frank) to Mannix Enterprises in which Miles would become a vice-president. Dan's only friend in the world is his cat, "Pete", a feisty tomcat who hates going outdoors in the snow. She had been Dan's fiancée, deceiving him into giving her enough voting stock to allow her and Miles to seize control. He has lost his company, Hired Girl, Inc., to his partner Miles Gentry and the company bookkeeper, Belle Darkin. The novel opens in 1970 with Daniel Boone Davis, an engineer and inventor, well into a long drinking binge. The idea for the novel came from an incident outlined by Heinlein later: Heinlein died in 1988.The Door into Summer by Robert A. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, he was a giant of 20th-century science fiction. Acclaimed as one of the 'Big Three', alongside Arthur C. A deeply political writer, Heinlein is most closely associated with right-wing libertarianism, although STARSHIP TROOPERS brought with it accusations of fascism and STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND is credited with being an influential text for the free love movement of the 1960s. He won multiple HUGOs, an unprecedented six PROMETHEUS AWARDs for libertarian SF and was the Science Fiction Writers of America's first GRAND MASTER AWARD recipient. Read more profound influence on ASTOUNDING, dominating the Golden Age of SF and shaping American science fiction for decades to come. In 1939 he turned to writing to supplement his Naval pension, selling his first story to John W. He graduated from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1929, serving as an officer until his discharge, for medical reasons, in 1934. Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Missouri in 1907. Dan somehow has to travel back in time to investigate.
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The discovery that the robot household appliances he invented have been mass produced is no surprise, but the realization that, far from having been stolen. Suddenly, the lure of suspended animation, the Long Sleep, becomes irresistible and Dan wakes up 30 years later in the 21st century, a time very much to his liking. A popular and enduring time travel tale by one of science fiction's all-time greats When Dan Davis is crossed in love and stabbed in the back by his business associates, the immediate future doesn't look too bright for him and Pete, his independent-minded tomcat. A popular and enduring time travel tale by one of science fiction's all-time greats. Description for The Door into Summer Paperback.
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