![]() ![]() Despite its brevity-less than one hundred pages- Flatland seamlessly melds social satire, pointed commentary on the vanity and hypocrisy of the upper classes, philosophical musings, higher mathematics, and a dash of what we would now call hard SF. And Victorian children would have been baffled. ![]() A cursory examination might have tempted Victorian readers to dismiss Flatland as a charming but far-fetched fantasy for Victorian children. Square of his adventures and misadventures during a series of fantastical journeys-rather like those in Gulliver's Travels or the Alice books. One hundred and twenty-two years ago a modest little volume entitled Flatland appeared in London, written by the pseudononymous A. ![]()
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