In an interview about the book he said after he had the idea, it took him only 13 days to write The Door Into Summer. This is not a super-technical science fiction story, but it definitely is a feel-good story with some not very surprising twists that tie everything up at the end with the good people living happily ever after. Then he learns that there IS a secret time machine which he tricks the recluse physicist into using to send him back in time to solve all his problems so that he can then freeze himself again until his niece grows up and joins him in the future. He goes on a quest: a) who is this soul-brother engineer? b) what happened to his original partner and the woman who cheated him? c) where is his beloved pre-teen niece—to whom he left all his papers—after all these years? When he wakes up he discovers that someone has improved on his inventions—exactly in the manner he was planning to improve them, before he was put to “sleepâ€. A genius engineer designs some phenomenally useful home-improvement gadgets, gets cheated by a wily woman, loses everything and ends up frozen for 30 years while someone else markets his inventions. 1956: not a violent story (except for the cat), but enough emotional action to keep my interest.
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