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# Flatland
*Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions* is an amazing [book](book.md) from 1884, now completely in the [public domain](public_domain.md), whose story takes place in a flat [plane](plane.md), a [two dimensional](2d.md) world inhabited by sentient two dimensional geometric shapes (men being [polygons](polygon.md), [women](woman.md) just [line](line.md) segments). The book is classified as [mathematical](math.md) [fantasy](fantasy.md) -- besides being a very rare case of a great quality, completely public domain fantasy before [The Lord of the Rings](lotr.md), it is also both a social criticism and an interesting and entertaining examination of mathematical and scientific concepts such as "how would two dimensional beings build their houses?", "how would they see?" etc. Flatland was written by Edwin Abbott Abbott, an English theologian, priest and teacher. There were sequels and spinoffs written by other people, even movies, but these aren't generally in the public domain yet.
*Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions* is an amazing [book](book.md) from 1884, now completely in the safe/strong [public domain](public_domain.md), whose story takes place in a flat [plane](plane.md), a [two dimensional](2d.md) world inhabited by sentient two dimensional geometric shapes (men being [polygons](polygon.md), [women](woman.md) just [line](line.md) segments). The book is classified as [mathematical](math.md) [fantasy](fantasy.md) -- besides being a very rare case of an exceptional quality completely public domain fantasy before [The Lord of the Rings](lotr.md), it is also both a social criticism and an [interesting](interesting.md) and entertaining examination of mathematical and scientific concepts such as "how would two dimensional beings build their houses?", "how would they see?" etc. Flatland was written by Edwin Abbott Abbott, an English theologian, priest and teacher. There were sequels and spinoffs written by other people, even movies, but these aren't generally in the public domain yet.
{ As the book is in the safe public domain, I won't restrain from going on deeper on summarizing the plot etc., legal dangers of any "infringements" are quite definitely zero here. YES, I know I can summarize plots even of proprietary works, but this wiki goes further, it want to also ensure that someone can e.g. take the plot and turn in into a video game, which in cases like fair use could lead to infringements. ~drummyfish }
From now on expect **spoilers** :)
The book is written as a narration by a square, an upper middle class shape, and describes all the peculiarities of living in Flatland, talking directly to the reader, a supposed inhabitant of "Spaceland" (the 3D world). The year in the book is 1999 of the Flatland world. The book explains and examines spaces of different [dimensions](dimension.md), firstly mathematically and then as a social topic -- the square protagonist basically starts thinking about the possibility that besides his 2D world there might exist worlds of different dimensions -- first he dreams about being in 1D land -- Lineland -- and later, at the turn of the millenium, he is visited by a [sphere](sphere.md) from the 3D world, a kind of alien to the square, but the sphere is able to convince the square that it came from a higher dimensional space. The ideas of existence of different dimensions are consequently seen as a kind of lunacy and heresy by others, he is basically seen as a [schizo](schizo.md) and conspiration theorist and gets in the trouble for his freethinking, just like many of those who in the past questioned religious ideas or those who nowadays question [official "science"](soyence.md). There is also examination of the 0 dimensional space, Pointland.
The book is written as a narration by a square, an upper middle class shape, and describes all the peculiarities of living in Flatland, talking directly to the reader, a supposed inhabitant of "Spaceland" (the 3D world). The year in the book is 1999 of the Flatland world. The book explains and explores spaces of different [dimensions](dimension.md), firstly mathematically and then as a social topic -- the square protagonist essentially starts thinking about the possibility that besides his 2D universe there might exist worlds of different dimensions -- at first he dreams about being in 1D land -- Lineland -- and later, at the turn of the millennium, he is visited by a [sphere](sphere.md) from the 3D world, a sort of alien to the square, but the sphere is able to convince the square that it came from a higher dimensional space. The ideas of existence of different dimensions are consequently seen as a kind of lunacy and heresy by others, he is basically seen as a [schizo](schizo.md) and conspiracy theorist and gets in trouble for his freethinking, just like many of those who in the past questioned religious orthodoxy or those who nowadays question [official "science"](soyence.md). Examination of the 0 dimensional space, Pointland, also appears in the story.
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