Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott is a story that uses a world of shapes to make fun of society and explore big ideas. Imagine a place called Flatland, where everyone is a geometric shape living in only two dimensions. Our guide is A Square, who shows us how important it is to have more sides than others in this world. Since they can only see lines, Flatlanders mostly recognize each other by hearing and touching. The author uses this strange place to poke fun at the rules and norms of society, encouraging us to consider questions about how we know what we know and if there are more dimensions out there that we can't see, especially when A Square gets a glimpse of a whole new, three-dimensional world.