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Fantasy Literature
Related: About this forumHas anyone ever read Edwin Abbott's "Flatland"?
If so, what did you think?
Interested in some opinions.
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Has anyone ever read Edwin Abbott's "Flatland"? (Original Post)
Aristus
Apr 2014
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getting old in mke
(813 posts)1. Not recently enough to hazard an opinion any more.
About 45 years ago and because I was interested in geometry...
Silver Gaia
(4,912 posts)2. Had to read it for a math class in college...
I thought it was pretty cool.
DavidDvorkin
(19,949 posts)3. I read it decades ago and loved it
I think it was on the recommendation of a math teacher.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)4. Truthfully, a better take on that idea is Planiverse:
Which was inspired by Flatland, of course.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Planiverse-Computer-Contact-Two-Dimensional/dp/0387989161