What if there existed a world consisting of only two spatial
dimensions? This mind-bending supposition is the jumping-off point
for one of literature's most celebrated oddities: the 1884 novella
*Flatland*, one of the earliest instances of modern speculative
fiction, and perhaps the only instance of mathematical satire. In
Flatland, a lowly square, whose polygonal betters exhibit more
sides, discovers pathways to other worlds where, alas, thinking is
as rigidly defined as in his own. Class structures, the position of
women (who are but mere lines), and the stolidness of religious and
political leaders are sent up with chilly aplomb. Beloved by fans
of science fiction, students of dimensional physics, and readers of
Victorian literature, this belongs on the shelf of any serious home
library.
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