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Planiverse is one of my all-time favorite books. Some tasty morsels: The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World - Engineering Designs in Pla

Planiverse is one of my all-time favorite books. Some tasty morsels: The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World - Engineering Designs in Planiverse - https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/2005-06/planiverse/designs.html https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project... --- > Dewdney wrote The Planiverse as..an allegory for his search for a reality deeper than that of scientific enquiry, and his subsequent conversion to Sufiism. We're the ones living in flatland, a planiverse of limited 3D perspective, who yearn for higher dimensions of experience, a glimpse of the beyond. Unfortunately it's not without risk, as this way madness lies - either as a trap of illusion, or at least as a step toward fundamental truth (if any).

egypturnash 4y ago
subsequent conversion to Sufiism. Huh. That makes a lot of sense from what I remember of the way the whole thing ended, with Yendred's time under the tutelage of Drabk the Sharak. Hello weird names still stuck in my head after thirty or so years. Not that this wasn't also a theme in Abbot's earlier Flatland, most of his other writing was theology, and it, too, climaxes with a mystical experience for its 2D protagonist. But A. Square ends up back in his flat world, writing from a madhouse, rather than transcending it and going on to... something inexplicable. I have spent time poking against this sort of thing and madness is definitely a possible result.