Series
Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott & Ian Stewart · 2 novels · 1884–2001
Edwin A. Abbott's 1884 novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions imagines a two-dimensional world of geometric beings, using its narrator's brush with higher dimensions as both a mathematical thought experiment and a satire of Victorian social rank. Ian Stewart's 2001 Flatterland follows a descendant of that narrator on a tour of stranger geometries, from curved and multidimensional space to relativity, as a knowing homage to Abbott's original. Together they pair a Victorian mathematical classic with its modern sequel.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Map
Flatland at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1880s1
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Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensionsdarkest · most intense
- Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More Sobrightest · calmest