James Bell 20 min read

Newlyweds Ernie and Melinee Lane, four days into their eleven- or twelve-room house, keep passing an extra door, until Ernie finally stops to open it, and everything tilts thirty degrees cattywonkus.

James Bell's 1960 story is a wry hard-SF and social-SF tale. Clever, fun golden-age SF. Read it for a genial domestic comedy where a too-big new house holds a very strange extra room, in a light, inventive golden-age piece that spins ordinary newlywed life toward a delightfully skewed dimensional puzzle.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

20 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).