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. 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. 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. There's only one thing for it. Dan somehow has to travel back in time to investigate.

Udgivet af Gollancz 

Robert A. Heinlein
En af de bedste og mest kendte navne inden for amerikansk SF I 1940'erne. Heinlein vandt så mange Hugo priser at det er næsten umuligt at have plads til at nævne dem alle her. "Double Star", "Stranger in a Strange Land" og "Starship Troopers" vandt alle Hugo'er. Desuden var Heinlein en af de første forfattere som skabte en opdigtet fremtid som mange af hans noveller kunne foregå I. "Starship Troopers" blev desuden filmatiseret af Paul Verhoeven, og filmen er der blevet lavet en tegnefilmserie ud af. Heinlein døde I 1988.