Robert A. Heinlein - "...And He Built a Crooked House". 1941

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Record Number: 51280

"...And He Built a Crooked House"
by Robert A. Heinlein
published in:
Astounding Science-Fiction
Edited by John W. Campbell
February 1941 – Vol.XXVI, No.6
Street & Smith Publications
New York
ISBN: N/A
Paperback/Magazine
Cover illustration by Hubert Rogers
164 pages
Price: $0.20

Notes
"...And He Built a Crooked House", a novelette by Robert A. Heinlein, can be found on pages 68-83.

The text includes illustrations by Charles Schneeman on pages 69, 72, 75 and 76.

Reprinted in:

The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction (1943, edited by Donald A. Wollheim)
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959)
6 x H (1961)
The Best of Robert Heinlein (1973)
The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)
Off the Main Sequence (2005)
Creating a Genre (2010)

The May 1941 issue of Astounding contained a Future History timeline chart that included "...And He Built a Crooked House", but it has not been included in:

any collections of Future History short fiction
later versions of the timeline chart
the Virginia Edition volumes of Future History stories.

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