The film is directed by Takahiro Miki who also directed My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday, a 2016 film in which an age difference in a relationship plays a major role (like in Heinlein’s story) although presented with a twist.

It’s about cryonic preservation as a freezing fast track to the future, coupled with more temperate time travel to the past to solve the problems that keep two people (and a cat) apart in that future. The film has some differences to Heinlein’s original story, but the underlying theme is the same. Or rather its two relationships - one feline, one female - and over the decades the latter has been met with one or two raised eyebrows. The full title of the 2021 film, The Door into Summer – To the Future with You (夏への扉 – キミのいる未来へ), sees the addition of a tagline alluding to the story’s enduring relationship. It’s a science fiction story about love, loss and a lengthier cold snap in cryonic preservation to escape the pain. Instead, I chanced upon the trailer for The Door into Summer, the first ever film adaptation of the classic 1957 novel of the same name by Robert Heinlein. Clarke.Having been treated to an uncharacteristic flurry of snow during a February cold snap in London, made worse by the sedentary lifestyle imposed by the coronavirus lockdown, I was looking forward to opening the door into spring. Here's a passive implementation of this idea - take a look at this Science Fiction in the News story - Pilkington Activ Glass - The Invisible Squeegee Of Window-Willie.Ĭompare to the window-cleaner robots from Rendezvous With Rama (1972) by Arthur C. Published by Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1956 Do you know what window washing used to cost by the hour? I held him back until I had him down to a price that people could not refuse. That was Window Willie and it's a wonder that somebody hadn't thought of him sooner. It turned Out that an electrostatic device could make dirt go spung! off any polished silica surface, window glass, bathtubs, toilet bowls-anything of that sort. I got to thinking about dirty windows and that ring around the bathtub that is so hard to scrub, as you have to bend double to get at it. But I had just had a long government vacation and wanted to be my own boss. The other big market for engineers is civil service-good starting pay, good pensions, no worries, thirty days annual leave, liberal benefits. You haven't missed any meals, you've had a lot of rides in company airplanes. Go to work for Standard, or du Pont, or General Motors? Thirty years later they give you a testimonial dinner and a pension.

While I was in the service I had thought hard about what one engineer can do.

Yes, I invented Hired Girl and all her kinfolk-Window Willie and the rest-even though you won't find my name on them.

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