Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Author: first_name: Edwin Abbott
last_name: Abbott
Language: English
Year: 1884

<i>Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions</i> is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, <i>Flatland</i> offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described <i>Flatland</i> as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of pe