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	• The Door into Summer (Unabridged) Robert A. Heinlein audible.com average customer review:based on 97 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.

An entertaining, if short, mid-century SF novella

I am in the process of re-reading many of the SF books I first read in my youth, and The Door Into Summer is among the better ones. It's a short little book: only 154 pages of actual story text, and it reads more like an extended short story than a full-length novel. As others have pointed out, the book is hopelessly outdated in its visions of future technology, but that does not really detract from it all that much. Dan, the main character, is likable, the story is entertaining and moderately suspenseful, and if you like cats you'll be charmed by the descriptions of Dan's fearless feline companion, Pete.

The book's main weakness is that you, the reader, will pick up on clues about what's going on long before Dan does... which makes you wonder how smart he really is. And the ending feels a bit rushed - as if Heinlein suddenly had to wrap things up in a hurry. Otherwise, you'd think he'd flesh things out more, since the book is so short.

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Great Sci-Fi and Cat Lovers' Book

This is a great book for science fiction lovers and cat lovers. It is a classic tale of time travel. It's also great to see a book where the hero is an engineer.

Since it was written in the 50s, there are some views of the future that seem dated, like the drafting maching. However, we do have something like it in AutoCad and ProE. It is just interesting to see what his ideas for the future would be and compare it to what actually is. Like with the drafting machine, he is not too far off.

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, long ago! Unfortunately the time-travel plot used here has been pirated by so many inferior writers that it would, now, get a "boring" rating.

Heinlein was a true master at time-travel science fiction! Read the book. Buy the book! Tell your librarian to buy the book! Give the book as a present to a teenager!

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Dan Davis was tricked by an unscrupulous business partner and a greedy fiancee into spending thirty years in suspended animation just when he was on the verge of a success beyond his wildest dreams. But when he awoke in the future, he discovered he had the means to travel back in time -- and get his revenge!

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