# Mobius strips **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 1, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mobius-strips/52641 "2001-02-01T01:32:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mobius-strips/52641/21 "2001-02-02T23:25:16Z")
Can’t quite remember the names of the stories and authors but Robert Heimlein wrote a short story about a 4 dimensional house and there’s another short story somewhere called a Street Car Named Mobius. Both stories did little to explain the science behind them to me but are enjoyable none the less. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mobius-strips/52641/22 "2001-02-02T23:44:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pushkin \* > \*\*Can’t quite remember the names of the stories and authors but Robert Heimlein wrote a short story about a 4 dimensional house and there’s another short story somewhere called a Street Car Named Mobius. > Both stories did little to explain the science behind them to me but are enjoyable none the less. \*\* Heinlein did write “And He Built A Crooked House”. Great story, too. A house built in the form of a three-dimensional shadow of a hypercube gets folded four-dimensionally into a _real_ hypercube with fourth dimensional shortcuts. One of Heinlein’s funniest. The ISFDB is down for some reason, but I _think_ A Streetcar Mamed Mobius is by Jack Finny. I’m not positive by any means and on second thought the name seems to cute for Finny. Maybe Fredric Brown or William Tenn? I remember the title, but I can’t remember anything about the story. I know I’ve read it though. Fenris [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mobius-strips/52641.md?page=1)