![]() According to Wikipedia, in three separate Locus Magazine readers polls, from 1975 to 1998, it was judged the 36th, the 29th, and the 43rd all-time best science-fiction novel respectively.Īccording to biographer William H Patterson the background to this novel is that Heinlein wrote this one very quickly, being inspired by a sudden remark that Heinlein’s wife Virginia (Ginny) made when their cat (Pixie III) refused to leave the house on a snowy day: “I guess he’s looking for the door into summer.” Heinlein wrote the complete novel (66 000 words) in only 13 days. It is rarely out of print, and often appears in ‘Best of’ lists – the Locus Readers Polls have often included it as one of the best. ![]() The Door into Summer is a story that still holds up very well, perhaps more so than many of his 1950’s novels, and also gives us Heinlein tropes that will be used again and again in the future. Putting Door into Summer into context, the most recent of these juveniles was Time For the Stars, which I admired but didn’t love when I last re-read and reviewed it. Unlike the previous novel re-read, The Door Into Summer is an adult novel, which at this stage of Heinlein’s career were being written in tandem with his so-called ‘juvenile’ novels. The Door into Summer was originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October, November, December 1956) and published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1957. ![]() Here’s the latest reread of Heinlein’s works, as Mark goes through the Virginia Edition series. ![]()
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