Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
By Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland is a book written by an English schoolteacher and theologian named Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland is basically a a book written from the point of view of a square who lives in a large two-dimensional world. The book was actually published under the pseudonym, A. Square (Get it?). The book is divided into two parts. The first part simply explains how a 2D world is able to work. This section, though cleverly thought out, is long and somewhat boring. The second part gets to the plot of the whole story. In the story, the square has a dream that he saw Lineland, a land in the 1st dimension. He tries to explain the second dimension to the King of Lineland, but the King does not listen and eventually tries to kill the square. The next day, the square is visited by a perfect circle, claiming to be a sphere. The sphere explains the whole 3rd Dimension to the square, but the square tries to kill the s0-called sphere, refusing to listen. The square is taken by the sphere and is shown the 3rd Dimension (Spaceland) and the land with no dimension (Pointland). The story is interesting, yet somewhat boring at the beginning. 6.5 stars out of 10! Yay for books!
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