Strange worlds
Flatland
Mathematical fiction & social satire
A square meets a sphere—and discovers the limits of an entire world.
A mathematical fiction and social satire in which a society mistakes its own limits for the limits of reality. The strange geometry is inviting; the sexism and rigid hierarchy also belong to the book’s historical setting, not this site’s values.
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Second and revised edition, 1884; original English
Gutenberg #97 includes the second-edition preface. The separate historical 1884 scan may be a first edition, not an exact facsimile of the revised text. Fiction is not evidence of supernatural dimensions.
