@booklet {7607, title = {Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions}, year = {1884}, note = {

2nd and rev. ed. London: Seeley \& Co., 1884. Rpt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991; and illus. Frank Mayo. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995, with an \“Introduction\” by Gregory Benford (ix-xxvii). See also The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Introduction and Notes by Ian Stewart. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. Other recent eds. are ed. Rosemary Jann. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2006; and ed. William F. Lindgren and Thomas F. Banchoff with Notes and Commentary. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press/Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 2010.

}, month = {1884}, publisher = {Seeley \& Co}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Primarily an exercise in geometry using an imaginary country, but the novel includes commentaries, some satirical, on art, eugenics, religion, class, the position of women, and other contemporary issues. For a 21st century use of the idea, see Steve Tomasula, VAS: An Opera in Flatland. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2002. A humorous comment is Anne Toole. \“Secrets of Flatland.\” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multuiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 172-77.\ Others who have written sequels to Flatland include Dionys Burger, Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Space and an Expanded Universe. Trans. Cornelie J. Reinboldt. New York: Thomas J. Crowell, 1965 (Originally published in Dutch in 1957); Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946), \“Message Found in a Copy of Flatland.\” The 57th Franz Kafka (New York: Ace Books, 1983), 224-34; and Rucker,\ The Sex Sphere. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1983; A[lexander] K[eewatin] Dewdney, The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World. New York: Poseidon Press, 1984; and Ian Stewart, Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001. See also 1907 Hinton and 1965 Calisher.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Edwin Abbott] [Abbott] (1838-1926)} }