He had a fixed conviction that at least one of them must lead into summer weather. This is a great character who is still a cat. He rides around in a bag with his owner, responds to conversations with meows, and takes on the bad guys when they attack his owner. She would them meow at me insistently, apparently under the impression I could do something about the rain.) Pete the cat is great fun. A cat I used to have, Figaro, on finding rain outside the front door, would immediately go to the back door. (I actually have personal experience of this type of cat behaviour.

The hero at he start of the story states that he, like his cat, is looking for his own door into summer and away from the ‘winter’ his friend and fiancé have left him in by their betrayal. The story’s name comes from the cat wanting to check all the doors of the house during winter, looking for the door into summer. Time travel, via cryogenic sleep into the future, and via a time machine back again, helps him achieve what he wants.Īs a cat lover, I first must say how very much I enjoyed the character of Pete, the protagonist’s cat. The story concerns protagonist Dan Davis, an inventor who is cheated out of his life’s work, and wants to gain revenge, as well as finding some new meaning in his life. As such, this book, while quite good, is not great. More famous works such as “Stranger in a Strange Land” are still ahead of him. This is a relatively early work for Heinlein, having first been published in 1957.

The door into summer book review