The Door Into Summer (Dveře do léta, 2006)

Přidal: Přemek |

Leden 5, 2012

Robert A. Heinlein. Audiokniha.

Čte Patrick Lawlor.

Natočilo a vydalo Blackstone Audiobooks v roce 2006 (celkem 6:48 hod.).

Pozn.: With the hero of the novel „The Door to Summer“, a talented inventor Daniel Boone Davis happens a problem: it betrayed the people closest – a companion and a young bride. Having lost all their money and labor of love, Daniel with the help of suspended animation for thirty years, goes forward to the future, there to start all over again.

The novel opens in 1970 with Daniel Boone Davis, an engineer and inventor, well into a long drinking binge. He has lost his company, Hired Girl, Inc., to his partner Miles Gentry and the company bookkeeper, Belle Darkin. She had been Dan’s fiancée, deceiving him into giving her enough voting stock to allow her and Miles to seize control. Dan’s only friend in the world is his cat, „Petronius the Arbiter“, or „Pete“, whom he carries around in a bag, allowing him out from time to time for a sip of ginger ale. …

The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October, November, December 1956, with covers and interior illustrations by Frank Kelly Freas) and published in hardcover in 1957. It is a fast-paced hard science fiction novel, with a key fantastic element, and romantic elements. In three separate Locus Magazine readers polls from 1975 to 1998, it was judged the 36th, the 29th, or the 43rd all-time best science-fiction novel.