He may even find Pete…and the girl he really loves. Dan somehow has to travel back in time to investigate. The discovery that the robot household appliances he invented have been mass produced is no surprise, but the realization that, far from having been stolen from him, they have, mysteriously, been patented in his name is. In writing this story Heinlein envisioned a world both 15 and 50 years in the future. It’s always interesting to read other’s predictions of the future. It was published in 1956 but is set in the 1970s and 2000s. Suddenly, the lure of suspended animation, the Long Sleep, becomes irresistible and Dan wakes up 30 years later in the 21st century, a time very much to his liking. It is Robert Heinlein’s time travel book. When Dan Davis is crossed in love and stabbed in the back by his business associates, the immediate future doesn’t look too bright for him and Pete, his independent-minded tomcat. But his partners never anticipated the existence of time travel, enabling Dan to exact his revenge and alter his own future… Brilliant engineer Dan Davis finds himself hoodwinked by his greedy business partners and forced to take the Long Sleep… placing him in suspended animation for 30 years.
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