A review by lucasnnelson
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott

3.0

A novella that follows a mathematician in his two dimensional world as he describes his world and shares his experiences in a 3D journey. Originally written to criticize the Victorian social hierarchy but still applies in part to today. It serves as a philosophical analysis of class hierarchy, sexism, limitations of one’s beliefs, the idea that nature determines anything (it insinuates that nature is necesssrily subjective and so cannot explain anything), epistemology, etc.

Read on the plane to/from Phoenix for a conference. Quick read but I liked it. Slow without character development but read as an essay/philosophy piece it stands.