Really gets you thinking about our existence in physical dimensions and the possibilities of the unknown.Īlthough I enjoyed the book, it's not the best reading. Loved the new approach to highlighting issues and features of society and reality. The first few chapters were rather complicated and required some concentration, but once you get your head around the basics it's an easy going and very enjoyable story. Very different take on a story, using math, shapes and dimensions to explore reality and society. If you could sum up Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions in three words, what would they be? Great story, but I'd try a different narrator. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? He didn't know how to read mathematical notation. His voice is pleasant, but I found it frustrating to hear him say "thirty-two" or "thirty-three" when he should have said, "three squared" and "three cubed". Would you be willing to try another one of Alan Munro’s performances? It's as if the authors have found new scenic overlooks which offer the viewer a new and greater perspective. It may seem strange, but I couldn't help thinking of Lewis' "The Great Divorce" because both books encourage on to stretch the imagination and consider possibilities from perspectives not usually presented. What other book might you compare Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions to and why? The story is fantastic! I love stories which expand the imagination and encourage the reader to consider the world from different perspectives. What made the experience of listening to Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions the most enjoyable? Since I was reading along with the book, I saw the error, but if I was only listening, it would have been a little confusing.
He would simply read these as thirty-two or thirty-three. My biggest critique of the narration is that Alan Munro would occasionally stumble when presented with mathematical expressions like 3² (three to the second power) 3³ (three to the third power). In someways, that makes Flatland as relevant, revolutionary and prophetic a piece today as it was when published in 1884. Abbott wrote the novella Flatland during a period of women's suffrage and a rigid class-based hierarchy. Still, Abbott plays a very significant role in the development of science fiction as a reasonable way to address and criticize current social problems.
As a satire, however, while it loosely follows a very Swiftian formulation (Flatland = England Lineland = Lilliput Spaceland = Brobdingnag), it isn't as well developed as Gulliver's Travels.
I give Abbott props for prophetically working out some of the fundamentals of the fourth dimension and dimensional progression 30 years prior to Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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