Flatland - Hardcover

by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)

An evergreen science fiction classic, Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland presents an alternate vision of society rendered completely in two dimensions.

In the titular Flatland, women are line segments and men are polygons with various side lengths and angles. Even in such a simple world, social hierarchies and inequality persist. Social status is determined by a man's regularity of shape and their number of sides. Women, as line segments, are considered dangerous because they can disappear from view and wound others with their end points. In addition to its social critique, Flatland has also been widely praised by scientists like Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking as a useful thought experiment for conceptualizing life in higher and lower dimensions.

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Author Biography

Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926) was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and classical scholar. He graduated from Cambridge University and served as the headmaster of the City of London School for over two decades, where he pioneered advanced modern teaching methods. While he wrote numerous theological and grammatical texts, he is internationally remembered for his 1884 mathematical satire, Flatland. Written under the pseudonym "A Square," the novella brilliantly used geometric dimensions to critique Victorian social hierarchy and expand human imagination regarding higher planes of existence.