Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Classic of Science and Fiction, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbot. Using the world of Flatland he makes observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. Abbot's two-dimensional world is occupied by geometric figures, women are simple lines as men are polygons. Following a square as he tries to convince the monarch of a second dimension but fails to make him see beyond his flat realm. Traveling to Spaceland the square thinks of other possibilities beyond the third dimension.