Science Fiction: All You Zombies— Five Classic Stories By Robert A. Heinlein

 (Drivebycuriosity) - Robert Heinlein belonged to the ring of masters who developed the science fiction genre (Asimov, Clark, Frederic Pohl wikipedia). Like his colleagues he speculated about the future by appreciating scientific possibilities (hard science fiction).

 His short story "And he built a crooked house" shows what science fiction can do. The plot is based on mathematics and blends the weirdness of quantum physics with cosmology and ancient Hindu mythology about time & infinity. Apparently the basic idea inspired Ted Chiang ("Tower of Babylon") and other writers. 

The story is part of the small collection "All You Zombies— Five Classic Stories" (89 pages amazon). The name giving short story does not contain zombies, but narrates about the paradoxes of time travel and blends it with different topics like sex change, terrorism, paranoia and much more. The weird plot reminds me more of Philllip K Dick than of the Heinlein`s typical engineer tales ("The Moon is a Harsh Mistress")

The collection also contains a horror story, untypical for Heinlein as well.

"Crooked House" alone is worth to get the collection, that - in the moment of writing - is priced with $4.50.