"'—And He Built a Crooked House—''" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein first published in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1941. It is about a mathematically-inclined architect named Quintus Teal who has what he thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs by building a house shaped like the unfolded net of a tesseract. The night before the architect is to show the new owners around the house, there is an earthquake: the house then becomes folded through the fourth dimension. When the peopl ...

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