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The Door into Summer
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Door into Summer is a 1957 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein.Daniel Boone Davis is a genius engineer, an inventor who specializes in pseudo-autonomous robotic home appliances. He made a name for himself inventing house-cleaning robots. When his partner and fiance confront him about optioning his business, he finds himself locked out of his own company, unable to access his work or his designs.Depressed, a drunken Davis quickly gets tired of running from his troubles and decides to really run from his troubles; a thirty-year long cryogenic sleep.Davis wakes up to a changed world. The only people who loved him were his cat and his god-daughter. Some research reveals that she's disappeared and his cat starved to death, abandoned in the countryside near his former partner's home. His carefully managed stocks have disappeared into a Ponzi scheme. He's only got one thing going for him: thanks to his house cleaning robots, he's something of a celebrity.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Davis is soon living a simple, quiet life as an ad man and inventor in the future. There's only one problem: someone has stolen his designs and is publishing them as their own. Some of those designs existed only in his head and were never put on paper. And the name on the patents is D.B. Davis.What the hell is going on? | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: The Thorston memory tubes Davis plugs into his robots. Basically, in the absence of personal computers, functional and autonomous robots capable of even a single task (like washing the dishes or vacuuming) were beyond even imagining, so Heinlein came up with the minimum phlebotinum necessary to make them possible: a memory device that would allow the robot to perform a rote task once it's been walked through it. | |
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Absent-Minded Professor: Dr. Twitchell is a brilliant physicist but disillusioned and with a habit of Drowning His Sorrows (he was robbed of fame and Nobel Prize). Daniel manages to talk him into using the top secret time travel machine with flattery. | |
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Affectionate Nickname: Frederica is almost always referred to as "Ricky" and Daniel calls her twice Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. | |
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