This book did an amazing job at convincing me that for some people, certain concepts are simply inconceivable, now matter how hard one tries to explain. The parallel is a 2-dimensional’s “person” attempt to understand the third dimension.

Isn’t that what all sci-fi is aimed at??? NO!

90% of Science Fiction is aimed at the general public, if it weren’t it wouldn’t be so well known. “Primer” is a Sci-Fi movie for “nerds”, Minority Report is for everyone, that is the difference here.

Flatland was written by a mathematician/theologian, in between writing textbooks and teaching/researching.

However, with all of that boring stuff out of the way, I want you to know that this book kicks ass! It pretty much proved the existence of God to me high school, as a philosophical allegory and simultaneously introduced some of the basics of Quantum Theory, before it even existed! On top of that, Flatland is just an interesting book.

At 96 pages it can hardly be called a book; it is more of a Novella, broken into 2 halves. The first describing the mythology of its world, and the second telling the story.

If you’re in High School this book is a MUST! If you’re a CS, Engineering, Math, Physics, or any other “nerdy” Major in or out of College, then this book is a MUST for YOU TOO! For everyone else, it’s a “maybe”.

A really great illustration of how hard it could/can be for the human mind to comprehend the 11 dimensions of string theory.

It’s just so damned boring.

Dimensional geometry meets the Diary of a Nobody. Frustratingly evasive in too many places, but imaginative visualisation and horrific social comment all the same.