{{Short description|2004 novel by Andrew Crumey}} {{For|the Futurama episode|Möbius Dick (Futurama)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox book | name = Mobius Dick | image = Mobius Dick.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Andrew Crumey | cover_artist = Sara Fanelli | country = United Kingdom | language = English | genre = Literary fiction | publisher = Picador | pub_date = 2004 | media_type = Paperback | pages = 320 | isbn = 0-330-41992-7 | oclc= 60549582 }}
'''''Mobius Dick''''' (2004) is a novel by Andrew Crumey. It features an alternate world in which Nazi Germany invaded Great Britain and Erwin Schrödinger failed to find the wave equation that bears his name. This world becomes connected to our world due to experiments with quantum computers. The title parodies ''Moby-Dick''.
The science-fiction plot centres on a mysterious mountain hospital in the Scottish highlands. Interweaving tales re-write the historical stories of Robert Schumann's stay in a similar clinic in Endenich and Schrödinger's visit to the Alpine sanatorium of Arosa, both of which echo the situation in Thomas Mann's ''The Magic Mountain''. Connections are drawn from the tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann, particularly ''The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr''.
It was longlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.<ref>Fiona Mcglynn, "Writers booked to boost award". Evening News (Edinburgh). January 31, 2005.</ref>
==Reception== ''A Companion to Crime Fiction'' describes ''Mobius Dick'' as a 'metaphysical detective story', comparing it with Kobo Abe's Inter Ice Age 4 and Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, 'linking apocalyptic science fiction and metaphysical detective/mystery stories through antiphonal narratives, alternating "science" and "mystery" to yield reciprocal modes of displacement.'<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rzepka |first1=Charles J. |last2=Horsley |first2=Lee|date=2020 |title=A Companion to Crime Fiction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euzcDwAAQBAJ |location= |publisher=Wiley |page=319 |isbn=9781405167659}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://archive.org/details/mobiusdick0000crum_c8g7 ''Mobius Dick'' at Internet Archive] * [https://thousandmonkeys.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/mobius-dick-by-andrew-crumey/ Thousand Monkeys review] * [https://mondyboy.com/?p=6139 Hysterical Hamster review]
Category:English-language literature Category:2004 British novels Category:Novels by Andrew Crumey Category:British alternative history novels Category:Novels about World War II alternate histories Category:Picador (imprint) books
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