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HIGHER DIMENSIONS IN SCIENCE FICTION 179<br />
22. Heinlien, R. (1991) Starman Jones. New York: Ballantine. Spaceships travel<br />
<strong>through</strong> 4-D hyperspace.<br />
23. Heinlein, R. (1987) Citizen of the Galaxy. New York: Ballantine. (Originally<br />
published in 1957.) Travel in hyperspace.<br />
24. Heinlein, R. (1958) "—And he built a crooked house," in Fantasia Mathematica,<br />
C. Fadiman, ed. New York: Simon and Schuster. (Original story<br />
published in 1940.) The misadventures of a California architect who built<br />
his house to resemble the projection in 3-D space of a 4-D hypercube.<br />
When the hypercube house folds, it looks like an ordinary cube from the<br />
outside because it rests in our space on its cubical face—just as a folded<br />
paper cube, sitting on a plane, would look to Flatlanders like a square.<br />
Eventually the hypercube house falls out of space altogether.<br />
25. Heinlein, R. (1991) Starman Jones. New York: Ballantine. (Originally published<br />
in 1953.) The transition into "TV-space" requires careful calculations<br />
because at some points in interstellar space, space is folded over on itself in<br />
"Horst Anomalies."<br />
26. Laumer, K. (1986) Worlds of the Imperium. New York: TOR. Describes<br />
alternate worlds in which one man is confronted by his alternate self. The<br />
protagonist is trapped and kidnapped by the inhabitants of a parallel universe.<br />
He learns that he must assassinate a version of himself who is an evil<br />
dictator in the parallel world.<br />
27. Leiber, F. (1945) Destiny Times Three. New York: Galaxy Novels. Several<br />
humans use a "Probability Engine" to split time and create alternate histories,<br />
allowing only those best suited for Earth to survive.<br />
28. Lenz, F. (1997) Snowboarding to Nirvana. New York: St. Martin's Press.<br />
Frederick Lenz is introduced to "skyboarding" in a higher dimension. He<br />
proceeds to skyboard <strong>through</strong> colored dimensions until he reaches a violet<br />
one. "The air in this dimension was textured with some kind of indecipherable<br />
hieroglyphic writing. Beings like huge American Indians began flying<br />
past us."<br />
29. Lesser, M. (1950) All Heroes Are Hated. In the year 2900 A.D., interstellar<br />
travel is commonplace and quick using hyperspace. Unfortunately, twelve<br />
billion inhabitants of six worlds are annihilated when a spaceship exits<br />
hyperspace with its drive still turned on.<br />
30. Martin, G. R. R. (1978) "FTA," in 100 Great Science Fiction Short Stories.<br />
I. Asimov, M. Greenberg, and J. Olander, eds. New York: Doubleday.<br />
Hyperspace turns out not to be a shortcut for space travel.