A Subway Named Mobius (1952)

[jyunwai]

https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20210556

[sib]

This immediately made me think of the Heinlein story, "And He Built a Crooked House."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House

[BizarroLand → sib]

Read it here:

http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/CrookedHouse.pdf

I couldn't help but visualize Teal and Bailey as 2 black and white actors from some long forgotten 1940's buddy cop movie or something.

[wslh]

The Argentinian film Moebius (1996) [1] is based on that story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moebius_(1996_film)

[rwoodley]

I remember this from childhood and tried to find it several times. Nice story. I think of it often when certain software systems I work on become overly complex.

[actionfromafar]

Available in .mobi format.

[eep_social]

If you happen to be familiar with the MBTA, the opening is a treat.

[dibujaron → eep_social]

I read it just now because of this comment and it was a joy! I recently read the history of the mbta book, which helped me understand the old names of lines and stations. The fictional network has a few connecting lines that never existed, but every line they actually ride and every station they visit is (or was) real.

The story is very short, highly recommend.

[eep_social → dibujaron]

Exactly my experience, thanks for sharing.

[Philadelphia]

I remember being scared by this as a kid.