> > > > I once read a story by . . . oh, someone. Some famous guy. Anyway, it was a short story where a guy builds a house as an unfolded hypercube, but then an earthquake makes the house fold up in the third dimension and many strange things happen. That story RULED.
> > >
> > > -eric "I KNOW it was someone famous" sleator
> > > Wed 28 Feb A.D. 2001
> >
> > Aaaargh! I know that story! It was AWESOME. I need to start writing down the authors and titles of really good short stories I read in collections, because I take them back to the library and then ten years later I can't remember ANYTHING that could help me get hold of it again.
> >
> > Brunnen-"we need a website where you can enter random disjointed half-remembered descriptions and it tells you what story you mean"G
>
> I *hate* it when that happens. I knew the story too. I have it in a collection somewhere. So I asked around, and thanked a friend profusely for recalling:
>
> "And He Built A Crooked House...", by Heinlein.
>
> You can all sleep a little better now.
>
> -Fob"had to know"ulis

Heh. I thought that description sounded like something Heinlein would write. Maybe I should have said something earlier. :-)

Don "Never though I was good enough to identify an author based on THAT little info..." Monkey