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{{Infobox book
| title = Flatland
| original title = Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
| image = Flatland (first edition) page 71.png
| caption = The Sphere, interacting with Flatland. Illustration from the original 1884 edition
| author = Edwin Abbott Abbott
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = An examination of hierarchy in Victorian culture, disguised as a primer on dimensions.
| genre = Satire
| publication date = 1884
| source page exists = yes
| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
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'''''[https://web.archive.org/web/20201107224235/http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/ Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions]''''' is a 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbott. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world made up of polygons, and is narrated by a square. Named [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|A. Square]]. It's also a scathing dissection of Victorian class structures, of biological racism and eugenics, and of misogyny.
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It is part sci-fi, part satire, part philosophy, and part mathematics. [[Isaac Asimov]] described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions".
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* [[A God Am I]]: The sole inhabitant of Pointland spends all his time making these speeches to himself, since he has no way of being convinced that anything else even exists.
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