Flatland

For the first time in Russian, this novel was published in the famous science popularization Gardener series of the publishing house Mir. In the two-dimensional world of Flatland, where the social status of inhabitants depends on the number of Right Angles, a member of the upper class — the Square — has strange dreams about other realities. He finds himself in a one-dimensional world, where he unsuccessfully tries to explain the existence of a second dimension to beings incapable of looking beyond the eternally straight line, and experiences a visit from the mysterious Sphere from the three-dimensional world, which every thousand years attempts to reveal the existence of Space to the Flatlanders…