Born in the Wrong Century: Daniel signed up for cold sleep in 1970 only because he was binge drinking after friends betrayed him, and would not go there volunteerly when sober.Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Either Leonardo da Vinci or Quetzalcoatl or both may have been time traveler Leonard Vincent.ĭan: Well, first, which one of you cooked up the swindle? Or did you plan it together?.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. Probably, inspired by Williams–Kilburn tube, the earliest RAM device. Applied Phlebotinum: The Thorston memory tubes Davis plugs into his robots.Affectionate Nickname: Frederica is almost always referred to as "Ricky" and Daniel calls her twice Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.Daniel manages to talk him into using the top secret time travel machine with flattery. Twitchell is a brilliant physicist but disillusioned and with a habit of Drowning His Sorrows (he was robbed of fame and Nobel Prize). In 2021 this film was adopted into a Japanese film, The Door into Summer, which, except for a Setting Update, is pretty faithful to the plot. Some of those designs existed only in his head and were never put on paper. There's only one problem: someone has stolen his designs and is publishing them as their own. He's only got one thing going for him: thanks to his house cleaning robots, he's something of a celebrity.ĭavis is soon living a simple, quiet life as an ad man and inventor in the future. His carefully managed stocks have disappeared into a Ponzi scheme. Some research reveals that she's disappeared and his cat starved to death, abandoned in the countryside near his former partner's home.
The only people who loved him were his cat and his god-daughter. 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.ĭepressed, 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.ĭavis wakes up to a changed world. He made a name for himself inventing house-cleaning robots. Heinlein.ĭaniel Boone Davis is a genius engineer, an inventor who specializes in pseudo-autonomous robotic home appliances. The Door into Summer is a 1957 science fiction novel by Robert A.
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