The Door into Summer (1957)

This was a re read, I've read this one numerous times. I like early Heinlein. I enjoy his prose a lot, its flexible and colloquial and funny. I think he's a master of seamless exposition, giving you just what you need to know in order to follow the story while still moving the plot along briskly. I have a sort of nostalgic fondness for the mid 20th optimism about technology too.
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An oldie but goldie. An young inventer with an demanding cat is robbed of his priceless invetion and forced into hypersleep. He wakes in a world that is new and he feels like the stranger he is. In an artikel he reads about a man that is trying to make timetravel reel,,,,, ( )

Light entertainment typical of Heinlein: readable, fun, not terribly impactful. I wish the character had spent more time in the future, which was the most interesting part for me. I thought the end was seriously creepy, though.

Note: written in only 13 days, with only light editing. ( )

I had forgotten just how good Heinlein really was. While there's no Lazarus Long here, it's still something of a "time travel" yarn and almost believable. A really good read! ( )

Robert Heinlein’s output of novels and stories was so prodigious that it means most of us casual sci-fi fans can always find something he wrote that’s new to us. So it was for me with The Door into Summer, a charming tale that combines cryogenics and time travel. Heinlein’s touch here is light; this is a very narrow story focused on a brilliant engineer who finds himself mixed up in a business deal gone wrong, and who then combines resilience, genius, hard work and a bit of luck to see if he can straighten things out. ( )