FlatlandBy: Edwin Abbott Series: Penguin Science Fiction The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality. 'At once a playful brainteaser about geometry, a pointed satire of Victorian manners