eBook, 103 pages
Published Jan. 1, 2009 by The Floating Press.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its hierarchies. A square, who is a resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland. He attempts to convince the monarch of Lineland of the possibility of another dimension, but the monarch cannot see outside the line. The square is then visited himself by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who must show the square Spaceland before he can conceive it. As more dimensions enter the scene, the story's discussion of fixed thought and the kind of inhuman action which accompanies it intensifies.
I have read this a few times in the past, this really is a long time Fav. I am not going to give a star rating right now just because I don't feel I could do an objective job of it.
One thing I would want everyone to know going into this. Just in case you don't already know and it is not immediately obvious this is satire. Know its time and place and do not judge to harshly.
