The Door to Summer is a science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & amp; Science Fiction (October, November, December 1956, with the cover and interior illustrations by Frank Kelly Freas). It was published in hardcover in 1957.
This novel is a fast-paced science fiction, with fantastic key elements and romantic elements.
In three separate polls of the readers of the magazine Track from 1975 to 1998, this poll became the 36th, 29th, and 43rd science fiction novels.
The title was sparked by comments made by Heinlein's wife, Virginia, when their cat refused to leave the house: "She's looking for the door to summer."
Heinlein wrote the novel in 13 days.
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The novel was opened in 1970 with Daniel Boone Davis, an engineer and inventor, both in long drinking parties. He has lost his company, Hired Girl, Inc., to his partner Miles Gentry and company bookkeeper, Belle Darkin. He has become Dan's fiancee, tricking him into giving him enough votes to allow him and Miles to seize control. Dan's only friend in the world is his cat, "Pete", an aggressive tomcat that hates out the house in the snow.
Hired Girl, Inc. producing a robot vacuum cleaner, but Dan has developed a new line of versatile home robots, Flexible Frank, when Miles announced his intention to sell the company (and Flexible Frank) to Mannix Enterprises where Miles will become a vice president. Want to remain independent, Dan opposed the takeover, but lost the vote and then fired as Chief Engineer. Left with a major financial settlement, and the rest of his Hired Girl stock, he chose to take "cold sleep" (hopeless), hoping to wake 30 years later to a brighter future. The doctor who checked in the cold sleeping facility immediately noticed that Dan had been drinking. He warns him to appear calm or not 24 hours later for the actual procedure.
After becoming aware, Dan decides to counterattack. First he sent Hired Girl stock certificates to the person he trusted, Miles's stepson, Frederica "Ricky" Virginia Gentry. And face Miles and find Belle's house in Miles. Belle injects him with an illegal "zombie" drug, which makes him disobedient. Belle and Miles found Dan's plan to sleep soundly and make him committed.
And woke up in 2000 without money for his name and did not know how to find people he once knew. Little money what Belle let him keep going with the collapse of Mannix in 1987. He lost Pete the cat, who escaped from Miles's house after Dan was sedated, and did not know how to find the now middle-aged Ricky.
And start rebuilding his life. She persuaded Geary Manufacturing, who now has a Hired Girl, to take her as a puppet. He discovered that Miles died in 1972, while Belle had become a curvy and wet carcass. All he remembers is that Ricky went to live with his grandmother about the time Dan got into a cold sleep. The scheme with Miles collapsed, when Flexible Frank disappeared the same night when he shook Dan.
And finding Flexible Frank is used everywhere, filling out a lot of grunt work people have ever filled. It's called "Eager Beaver", created by a company called "Aladdin Auto-engineering," but Dan can see that someone has taken the prototype and developed it. He was even more confused to discover that the patent was credited to "D. B. Davis."
His friend, Chuck in Geary, let slip that he had seen time travel work, in a lab in Colorado. At that moment Dan discovered that Ricky had woken up from a cold sleep and left Los Angeles for Brawley, California. And track him down to Yuma, Arizona, where he is apparently married. When Dan looked at the wedding list, he found out that he was married to "Daniel Boone Davis". He immediately emptied his bank account and headed to Colorado.
In Boulder, he befriends Dr. Twitchell, a brilliant scientist who reduced his frustration. Finally, Twitchell claimed to have invented the time machine. With powerful engines, Dan Twitchell's goads sent him back to 1970, months before his confrontation with Miles and Belle.
Working quickly, Dan created "Drafting And", which he later used to design "Protean Pete", the first version of Eager Beaver. He founded a new company called "Aladdin Auto-engineering," back to Los Angeles, and risked Miles's house on that fateful night. Seeing him arriving, he let the incident unfold until Pete the cat appeared, then picked up his own car and used it to remove Flexible Frank and all his engineering drawings from Miles's garage.
Destroying the pictures and machine parts scattered across the landscape, he came out to meet Ricky at his Girl Scout summer camp. And give her share in Hired Girl to Ricky and suggest that she sleep well when she's 21 so they can meet again. Ricky asks Dan if he'll marry her after they slept soundly and Dan agrees.
With Pete in his arms, he sleeps for a second time until 2001. He greets Ricky, now twenty years old, when he wakes up. They leave for Brawley to get their belongings from storage, and then get married in Yuma. Establishing himself as an independent inventor, he uses Ricky Hired Girl's stock to make changes in Geary, reassuring to watch a healthy rivalry with Aladdin.
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Main theme
Some of Heinlein's most famous stories, such as "'- All Your Zombies--'" and "By His Bootstrap", display the journey of time in which the protagonist reinvents himself using the paradox of time travel. This novel follows the same theme, although its paradox is not central in the story. The idea reappears in the Farnham Freehold novel, which throws its protagonists into the future and then returns them to their own time, where they change their destiny.
This novel is also post-apocalyptic, which occurred after the nuclear-armed conflict. The US is a clear winner thanks to a technology that includes "cold sleep", which is used to keep a large army that can be revived quickly and put into the field. The "zombie drug" used is a by-product of the interrogation technique. In the future, "zombie recruiters" seem to be active, suggesting that the drug is widely used to recruit forms of forced labor.
It was mentioned that Washington, D.C., was destroyed, with the capital moving to Denver, Colorado, and there were also some hits on the East Coast and in Texas. However, the book applies lightly. The US quickly recovered, refugees from devastated areas moved to unspoiled places - mainly California - and nuclear war leaving no trauma lasting. The 1984 book Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka took a limited nuclear attack right at the location mentioned in Heinlein's book and described how damaging it could be.
Early biographer and critic Heinlein Alexei Panshin, in his 1968 biography Heinlein in Dimension, noticed the controversial theme: "The romantic situation in this story is very interesting, very strange: nothing. reciprocity between a thirty-year-old engineer and a twelve-year-old girl ('adorable' is Heinlein's word for him), culminating in marriage after a few leaps around in time to adjust their age a little. disturbed "John W. Campbell, who says" Bob can write a better story, with one hand tied behind him, than most people on the field can do with both hands, but Jesus, I hope that the son of a gun will take the other hand from his pocket. "
Character
Daniel Boone Davis is a typical Heinlein hero, reflecting many of the author's own characters. An engineer and inventor, he is a fierce individualist. The only friend he has in the world is Pete and Ricky's young cat, wiser than his age.
Miles Gentry is a former Army partner and business partner of Dan, who handles financial and legal issues.
Belle S. Darkin presents himself to Miles and Dan when they most need help with the company. He is apparently a brilliant secretary, bookkeeper and office manager who is willing to work for a bargain price. In fact he was a master of deception with a wide criminal record, several aliases, and a number of previous marriages that had never been dissolved. He teased first Dan, then Miles.
Frederica Virginia "Ricky" Heinicke is physically an 11-year-old girl but is emotionally almost grown-up. Like all Heinlein heroes of this period, he is an intelligent redhead, and obviously imitates Virginia Heinlein, even having a version of his childhood name and nickname, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
Petronius the Arbiter or Pete, Dan's cat. Very vocal with a variety of expressive sounds, it acts as a soundboard for contemplation and fulminations. He goes everywhere with Dan, carried around in his overnight bag, shows up when Dan orders him ginger ale at the bar, or buys him food at a drive-in restaurant.
Chuck Freudenberg is Dan's "beer friend" and best friend at Geary Manufacturing.
Dr. Hubert Twitchell is a brilliant physicist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who creates time travel while studying antigravity, only to see his work declared a secret by a chair colonel seeking public promotion, robbing Twitchell of the Nobel Prize.
Reception
Science fiction writer and critic James Blish, writing in 1957, shortly after publication, criticized the lack of characterization of her hero Dan Davis, saying, "This must be the strange novel that is at its best when the author is openly editorializing.... "- in this case about the" parity support system of agricultural prices, which in 2000 applied to automobiles... Every other important subject of science fiction Heinlein has studied in length has come out regenerated, vitalized and made into possession the writer himself.That is not the case here, for the first time in Heinlein's long and honorable career - and not because Heinlein has nothing to say but because he failed to make it happen in a real protagonist.Obviously, Heinlein as his own hero is about to be played. Floyd C. Gale was more positive in his review in 1957, comparing the book with The Sleeper Awakes and the menu lis that "Heinlein painted a detailed picture of the two civilizations, so intriguing that 1970 clearly appeared in the reader's mind as the past, and very primitive at it... Of course you will love the latest Heinlein". Critics Alexei Panshin, writing in 1968, says that "overall, the story is really melodramatic but it's fun... It's as if Heinlein the engineer says, 'If I have spare parts available, what little gadgets will I most like to build? 'and then go ahead and build it fictitiously.
Source
- More Problems in Hands , by James Blish, writing as William Atheling, Jr., Advent: Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1970
- Heinlein in Dimension , by Alexei Panshin, Advent: Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1968
References
External links
- Door to Summer list of titles on the Internet Speculative Fiction Internet
- The Door to Summer in the Open Library in Internet Archive
- The Door into Summer section one, two and three on the Internet Archive
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