Dan's Uneasy Partnership with Miles

The Door into Summer

Dan and Miles move from wartime comradeship and complementary business roles to a bitter contest over ambition, control, and the trust one friend places in another.

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Bearing strength in each event

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Comrades After War Comrades After War from "The Door into Summer". Comrades After War A friendship carried forward Dan and Miles meet again after military service and use their different skills to build a business.

Comrades After War from "The Door into Summer". Comrades After War A friendship carried forward Dan and Miles meet again after military service and use their different skills to build a business.

Comrades After War A friendship carried forward Dan and Miles meet again after military service and use their different skills to build a business. Dan supplies engineering and inventive drive; Miles handles law and commercial management. A partnership with boundaries Dan retains majority ownership because independence matters deeply to him. The arrangement appears to balance their talents, but it also leaves them with different ideas about what success should mean.

Different Ambitions Different Ambitions from "The Door into Summer". Different Ambitions A growing divide As Dan works on Flexible Frank, Miles becomes impatient with extended development and wants production, expansion, and a…

Different Ambitions from "The Door into Summer". Different Ambitions A growing divide As Dan works on Flexible Frank, Miles becomes impatient with extended development and wants production, expansion, and a…

Different Ambitions A growing divide As Dan works on Flexible Frank, Miles becomes impatient with extended development and wants production, expansion, and a major investor. Dan prefers licensing and a small research shop that would leave him free to invent. The friendship under strain Their disagreement reveals that the old partnership was not built on identical goals. Miles wants to run a large business; Dan wants to remain his own engineering master.

The Company Vote The Company Vote from "The Door into Summer". The Company Vote Miles gains a majority Belle votes with Miles and gives his expansion proposal control of the meeting.

The Company Vote from "The Door into Summer". The Company Vote Miles gains a majority Belle votes with Miles and gives his expansion proposal control of the meeting.

The Company Vote Miles gains a majority Belle votes with Miles and gives his expansion proposal control of the meeting. Dan is astonished not only by the vote but by the apparent change in the person he trusted as both colleague and fiancée. Friendship becomes conflict The meeting ends Dan's role in the company. Miles presents the decision as necessary and even beneficial, but the formal dismissal makes clear that the partners are no longer negotiating as equals.

The Last Confrontation The Last Confrontation from "The Door into Summer". The Last Confrontation A bitter meeting Dan visits Miles's home and accuses him of helping Belle falsify contracts and take his work.

The Last Confrontation from "The Door into Summer". The Last Confrontation A bitter meeting Dan visits Miles's home and accuses him of helping Belle falsify contracts and take his work.

The Last Confrontation A bitter meeting Dan visits Miles's home and accuses him of helping Belle falsify contracts and take his work. Miles denies the accusations and offers a peaceful settlement, but Dan sees the offer as another attempt to manage him. Violence interrupts judgment Belle drugs Dan before he can leave. Miles does not stop the act and helps manage its consequences, transforming an old friend's silence into participation in Dan's forced disappearance.

A Legacy Reconsidered A Legacy Reconsidered from "The Door into Summer". A Legacy Reconsidered The old partner is gone Dan learns that Miles died less than two years after Dan entered cold sleep.

A Legacy Reconsidered from "The Door into Summer". A Legacy Reconsidered The old partner is gone Dan learns that Miles died less than two years after Dan entered cold sleep.

A Legacy Reconsidered The old partner is gone Dan learns that Miles died less than two years after Dan entered cold sleep. The possibility of confronting him has vanished, leaving only records and Belle's unreliable memories. Anger without a trial Dan's desire for revenge gradually loses its practical target. He cannot prove the old crimes, and his attention turns instead to Ricky, Pete, and the engineering life he can still build.

After the Six Weeks War

During the development of Flexible Frank

18 November 1970

Night of 3 December 1970

After Dan wakes in 2000 and investigates