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* [[Not So Different]]: Lord Sphere is no more willing to accept a fourth dimension than the Circles are a third.
* [[Paper People]]
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall|Painting The Fourth Dimension]]: or possibly [[Leaning
* [[Pals
* [[Shout-Out]]: A number of stories are unofficial sequels to or imitations of [[Flatland]]; others were inspired by it, and still others use this story to explain the concept of dimensions beyond our own.
** [[Carl Sagan]] laid it out in the ''[[Cosmos]]'' episode, ''[http://www.hulu.com/watch/63318/cosmos-the-edge-of-forever#s-p1-so-i0 The Edge of Forever]''.
** ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' has an episode with an alien freely inspired by Flatland.
** And in ''[[
** And then there's the ''Network TV show'' ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''. The writers certainly know how to please a demographic.
** At one point during their interdimensional travels in ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'', the protagonists are accidentally transported to Flatland, where they almost suffocate.
** '''The Hypernaut''' from [[Alan Moore|Alan Moore's]] ''[[Nineteen Sixty Three]]'' has a Flatland in his space station.
** Flatland and its inhabitants end up as the [[MacGuffin]] of the backstory for ''[[Transformers]] Alternity'' which, itself, deals extensively with the concepts of pan-dimensional transcendence. You know, [[To Sell Toys
** [http://www.forgottenfutures.org/forgottenfutures.co.uk/others.htm The Original Flatland Role Playing Game] by Marcus L Rowland. "Action and adventure in a world where characters are supposed to be two-dimensional!"
* [[Sinister Geometry]]: Averted; Flatlanders value perfect geometric symmetry as a sign of high breeding and intelligence.
* [[Skepticism Failure]]: A. Square and the Linelanders are skeptical of higher dimensions, and the plot proves them wrong.
* [[Small Secluded World]]: Pointland.
* [[Stay in
* [[Straw Man]]: The Flatland priests and government officials' view of <s>the</s> a world not being flat.
* [[
* [[World Building]]: Over half the book is this.
* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]: When the hero is taken into the third dimension by a sphere, he literally [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|Cannot Grasp Its True Form]] or the other creatures there at first.
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