Title: An Episode of Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension
Title Record # 1054462
Author: Charles Howard Hinton
Date: 1907-00-00
Type: NOVEL
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Language: English
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Author: Charles Howard Hinton
Date: 1907-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: catalog.hathitrust.org
Language: English
Note: First edition title page displays (7 lines, various fonts and sizes):
An Episode of Flatland:
or [very small caps]
How a Plane Folk Discovered
the Third Dimension.
to which is added [very small caps]
An Outline of the History
of Unæa.
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Synopsis: "Hinton expressed a continuing interest in the two-dimensional speculations contained in Edwin A Abbott's Flatland (1885), and wrote a novel of his own set on a circular two-dimensional world, An Episode of Flatland: Or, How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension; To Which is Added An Outline of the History of Unæa (1907). Combining elements of the sentimental romance and the Fantastic Voyage, it conveys a sense of almost surreal constriction into its storyline, oddly predictive in tone of many twentieth-century Pocket Universe tales; the ultimate Conceptual Breakthrough – as the inhabitants of Flatland discover third-dimensional worlds, just in time to guide their own plane planet Astria away from another planet – is emotionally powerful."
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--SFE3: biographical entry by Brian M. Stableford and John Clute
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