Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Jul 2014 · Open Road Media
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The beloved science fiction classic
In Flatland, the more sides a man has, the more powerful he is. Triangles are laborers and soldiers. Squares and pentagons are middle-class doctors and lawyers. Hexagons are nobility. Women, however, are straight lines, incapable of advancement in a two-dimensional world. Everything in Flatland is clear-cut and orderly, until the day an average citizen—a Square—dreams of a land of three dimensions. If three dimensions are possible, why not four? Or one? Soon, the Square’s provocative imagination and corresponding adventures threaten to turn the whole of Flatland against him.
First published in 1884, two decades before Einstein’s theory of relativity defined time as the fourth dimension, Edwin Abbott’s Flatland is both a prescient exploration of the unseen and a delightful skewering of Victorian social strictures.
This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
In Flatland, the more sides a man has, the more powerful he is. Triangles are laborers and soldiers. Squares and pentagons are middle-class doctors and lawyers. Hexagons are nobility. Women, however, are straight lines, incapable of advancement in a two-dimensional world. Everything in Flatland is clear-cut and orderly, until the day an average citizen—a Square—dreams of a land of three dimensions. If three dimensions are possible, why not four? Or one? Soon, the Square’s provocative imagination and corresponding adventures threaten to turn the whole of Flatland against him.
First published in 1884, two decades before Einstein’s theory of relativity defined time as the fourth dimension, Edwin Abbott’s Flatland is both a prescient exploration of the unseen and a delightful skewering of Victorian social strictures.
This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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4.2
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Darshan Zend
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February 25, 2021
the book is great, but don't download this copy as it doesn't have figures which help the story. there's a free version available which has it.
7 people found this review helpful
Bryan Lim
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April 7, 2019
An excellent eye opener to dimensionality as well as a satire of women's rights (or lack thereof) in Victorian England. It reflects many of the characteristics of Spaceland (I.e. The world we live in), notably how we subconsciously ascribe positive characteristics to good looking people as well as treat the weak and infirm with, if not outright disdain, prejudice and systemic neglect.
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James Conigrave
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July 29, 2014
It's amazing that that author somehow makes the interdimensional travels of a sexist square seem such a natural topic for a novel.
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About the author
Edwin Abbott (1838–1926) was an English educator and theologian best known for his 1884 novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a forerunner of modern science fiction.
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