Speculative

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott

A square living on a flat plane is visited by a sphere and must accept that his entire world is a single page. Abbott wrote it as mathematics and satire at once: the geometry is a lesson in dimensions, the social order of Flatland a lesson in who gets to decide what is real.

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Reading time

About 2 hr 20 min

Where to find it

The Horologist’s Study

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #201. In the public domain in the United States.