![]() ![]() Quite aside from any slings and arrows of real contingencies, a novelist's plot pretty well requires a short-range pessimism to power the action. ![]() Or at least, if conditions may require him to be a short-range pessimist, he remains a long-range optimist. ![]() What was there small enough for one engineer and not requiring six million man-hours before the first model was on the market? Bicycle-shop engineering with peanuts for capital, the way Ford and the Wright brothers had started - people said those days were gone forever I didn't believe it.Ĭertainly Heinlein is an individualist and optimist. What can one man, or a small team, accomplish today? Does innovation require government or a big corporate conglomerate? Heinlein thinks otherwise, as his narrator Dan Davis muses in The Door into Summer: But let me take my own time looping around to them all. This is a cat story, and a love story, and a time-travel story: all done well. ![]()
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