Edwin Abbott Abbott 2 hr 7 min read

A. Square, a humble inhabitant of a two-dimensional world, has his flat existence shattered when a Sphere from the third dimension visits and lifts him out of his plane entirely.

Edwin A. Abbott's 1884 classic is a brilliant satire and a genuine mathematical fantasy, using dimensional geometry to skewer Victorian hierarchy and expand the imagination. Witty, profound, unique. Read it for one of the most original books ever written, at once social satire and mind-bending journey through the dimensions.

In its time

Published in 1884, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

2 hr 7 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).