A. K. Dewdney also wrote a book called Planiverse which was inspired by Flatland. In this case, the two dimensional world was the screen of a computer monitor. Dewdney goes to great lengths to describe how everything works in two dimensions (anatomy, housing, transportation, etc)

The Planiverse 
(The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-dimensional World. Poseidon Books/Simon & Schuster, New York, 1984.) 

The tale of Yendred, a two-dimensional being who inhabits a two- dimensional world. Here is a truly exotic alternate world in which the details have been worked out to a degree not to be found in any other work of science fiction. Period. Would that all SF authors followed the implications of their premises this closely. Of course, what happens to Yendred in his search for the mysterious Drabk on his home planet of Arde not only reveals the implications of two-dimensionality at every step, but illustrates the challenges that face all beings, whatever their dimensionality. 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Lalley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:16 AM
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Flatland was Larry Niven's Ringworld...


> Ok, it's friday, so I had to chime in.
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> I have no earthly idea who Larry Niven is, I have never heard of Ringworld.  I
> do know of Freeman Dyson.
> 
> But if you want to read a good book, try Flatland by Edwin Abbott.  For Denys,
> I believe it was originally written in French.
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> Flatland is about a two dimensional society.  One Flatlander, a Square,
> discovers the existence of a third dimension and tries to understand the
> problems of higher dimensions.
> 
> Imagine a sphere (3 dimensions) crossing the plane of Flatland, (2 dimensions).
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> Better yet, the book has a sequel Sphereland.
> 
> Thanks Art.
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> Happy Friday.
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> -Craig
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