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Re: The story title! (Re: the secret to time travel)
Posted By: Nyperold, on host 150.176.96.2
Date: Friday, March 2, 2001, at 05:39:27
In Reply To: The story title! (Re: the secret to time travel) posted by Fobulis on Wednesday, February 28, 2001, at 21:17:32:

> > > > 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

Title and author noted. I have *got* to read this book sometime.

Nyperold

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