Help remembering a SF book name

[Rachel Glegg]

Hi friends!

Help... does anybody recall the name of a SF novel which featured a house where the rooms are distributed across many different worlds, and the doorways between the rooms are wormholes?

Cheers

Rachel

[Paul Hayes]

Is that house of leaves? That's the only thing it sounds like although it doesn't quite fit that description.

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[Rachel Glegg]

No, it wasn't that. It was more of a distant-future technology sort of concept.

I have a vague recollection the bathroom in this house may have been on a kind of floating platform or island in the middle of an ocean, on an otherwise uninhabited world, and possibly had no walls...

[Paul Hayes]

No idea, but it sounds brilliant. Let me know why you remember!

[Leslie Lent]

That does sound amazing.

Someone write it and film it! 

🤓

On May 26, 2017 3:21 PM, "Paul Hayes" <paul....@entropedia.co.uk> wrote:

No idea, but it sounds brilliant. Let me know why you remember!

On Fri, 26 May 2017, 23:20 Rachel Glegg, <rachel...@gmail.com> wrote:

No, it wasn't that. It was more of a distant-future technology sort of concept.

I have a vague recollection the bathroom in this house may have been on a kind of floating platform or island in the middle of an ocean, on an otherwise uninhabited world, and possibly had no walls...

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM Paul Hayes <paul....@entropedia.co.uk> wrote:

Is that house of leaves? That's the only thing it sounds like although it doesn't quite fit that description.

On Fri, 26 May 2017, 20:22 Rachel Glegg, <rachel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi friends!

Help... does anybody recall the name of a SF novel which featured a house where the rooms are distributed across many different worlds, and the doorways between the rooms are wormholes?

Cheers

Rachel

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[James Burt]

Morning!

I don't remember many details of the books, but Dan Simmons' Hyperion quartet had houses with rooms on different worlds.

(It's probably 20 years since I read those books. I loved them at the time, although I suspect that they'd be much less enjoyable for me now)

James

[Rachel Glegg]

Got it!

Wikipedia:

"In his Hyperion Cantos novel series, Dan Simmons imagines a network of portals called "farcasters" which connect most human-inhabited planets. 

Some of the more opulent occupants may have houses where each room is built on a different planet, and some rooms themselves may be partially built in several different physical locations but be joined by farcaster portals to form one complete room."

The silly thing is that when people ask me what my favourite books are, I still count Hyperion as my #2 favorite... so I'm not sure why I didn't figure this out earlier!

Enthusiastically recommended, if you haven't already read it.

Rachel

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:28 PM Leslie Lent <lesli...@gmail.com> wrote:

That does sound amazing.

Someone write it and film it! 

🤓

On May 26, 2017 3:21 PM, "Paul Hayes" <paul....@entropedia.co.uk> wrote:

No idea, but it sounds brilliant. Let me know why you remember!

On Fri, 26 May 2017, 23:20 Rachel Glegg, <rachel...@gmail.com> wrote:

No, it wasn't that. It was more of a distant-future technology sort of concept.

I have a vague recollection the bathroom in this house may have been on a kind of floating platform or island in the middle of an ocean, on an otherwise uninhabited world, and possibly had no walls...

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM Paul Hayes <paul....@entropedia.co.uk> wrote:

Is that house of leaves? That's the only thing it sounds like although it doesn't quite fit that description.

On Fri, 26 May 2017, 20:22 Rachel Glegg, <rachel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi friends!

Help... does anybody recall the name of a SF novel which featured a house where the rooms are distributed across many different worlds, and the doorways between the rooms are wormholes?

Cheers

Rachel

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[Rachel Glegg]

Oh - jinx! Thanks James. I'm confident that Hyperion (or one of the subsequent novels) is exactly where I remembered this from.

[Paul Silver]

I think the idea is more prominent in the sequel, The Fall of Hyperion. But worth reading both the first and second either way.

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Rachel Glegg <rachel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh - jinx! Thanks James. I'm confident that Hyperion (or one of the subsequent novels) is exactly where I remembered this from.

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:05 AM James Burt <ja...@orbific.com> wrote:

Morning!

I don't remember many details of the books, but Dan Simmons' Hyperion quartet had houses with rooms on different worlds.

(It's probably 20 years since I read those books. I loved them at the time, although I suspect that they'd be much less enjoyable for me now)

James

On 26/05/17 23:19, Rachel Glegg wrote:

No, it wasn't that. It was more of a distant-future technology sort of concept.

I have a vague recollection the bathroom in this house may have been on a kind of floating platform or island in the middle of an ocean, on an otherwise uninhabited world, and possibly had no walls...

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM Paul Hayes <paul....@entropedia.co.uk> wrote:

Is that house of leaves? That's the only thing it sounds like although it doesn't quite fit that description.

On Fri, 26 May 2017, 20:22 Rachel Glegg, <rachel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi friends!

Help... does anybody recall the name of a SF novel which featured a house where the rooms are distributed across many different worlds, and the doorways between the rooms are wormholes?

Cheers

Rachel

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[David D. Lent]

I am going to find these books.  They sound great!

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 3:09 AM, Paul Silver <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:

I think the idea is more prominent in the sequel, The Fall of Hyperion. But worth reading both the first and second either way.

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Rachel Glegg <rachel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh - jinx! Thanks James. I'm confident that Hyperion (or one of the subsequent novels) is exactly where I remembered this from.

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:05 AM James Burt <ja...@orbific.com> wrote:

Morning!

I don't remember many details of the books, but Dan Simmons' Hyperion quartet had houses with rooms on different worlds.

(It's probably 20 years since I read those books. I loved them at the time, although I suspect that they'd be much less enjoyable for me now)

James

On 26/05/17 23:19, Rachel Glegg wrote:

No, it wasn't that. It was more of a distant-future technology sort of concept.

I have a vague recollection the bathroom in this house may have been on a kind of floating platform or island in the middle of an ocean, on an otherwise uninhabited world, and possibly had no walls...

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM Paul Hayes <paul....@entropedia.co.uk> wrote:

Is that house of leaves? That's the only thing it sounds like although it doesn't quite fit that description.

On Fri, 26 May 2017, 20:22 Rachel Glegg, <rachel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi friends!

Help... does anybody recall the name of a SF novel which featured a house where the rooms are distributed across many different worlds, and the doorways between the rooms are wormholes?

Cheers

Rachel

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