Flatterland
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Seen from space, it was a strange world, with the austere beauty of a page from —first paragraph, chapter one (and codad at the end)
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Flatterland is a 2001 novel by Ian Stewart. It is a Spiritual Sequel to the 120-year-prior novel Flatland. It follows Vicky (the great-granddaughter of Flatland's protagonist) on her tour of the Mathiverse.
- A Worldwide Punomenon: Most things in the Mathiverse.
- Lies to Children: It's meant to be educational, but also entertaining, so the author doesn't stand on detail if it would get in the way of the story (which was a criticism of Flatland, although also a strength).
Vikki started to pick up the junk that had tumbled across the cellar floor, stuffing it back into the now rather battered boxes. She had almost finished when she noticed a tattered book. (More properly, it should be described as a scroll, for on Flatland books are written on lines, not flat sheets, in a kind of Morse code; and the way to store a line compactly is to roll it into a spiral... I can’t keep explaining this kind of thing to you, my Planiturthian readers. So if I use a Planiturthian term that seems not to make sense, for instance, having Vikki—who is a line, for heaven’s sake—pick something up or carry something, you’ll just have to assume that there is some Flatland equivalent. |
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