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The Planiverse: Computer Contact With a Two-Dimensional World

Author:: A. K. Dewdney (author)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Copernicus
Categories:: Mathematics, novel and science fiction
Publication year:: 2001
Original publication year:: 1984
ISBN:: 0-387-98916-1
Synopsis:: A group of computer programmers working under a professor discovers that the 2D simulation program they've developed, 2Dworld, is somehow connected with an actual two-dimensional world inhabited by intelligent creatures. They establish contact with Yendred, and through him, they learn a lot about his world.
Review:: This book is a sort of unofficial sequel to Abbott's famous Flatland, and it's one hell of a riveting read. I'm having a hard time making up my mind as to which of the unofficial sequels (Ian Stewart's Flatterland and Dionys Burger's Sphereland) are the superior; they're all simply really, really good.
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Preface to the Millennium Edition

2Dworld

Arde

A House by the Sea

On Fiddib Har

Walking to Is Felblt

City Below Ground

The Trek

The Punizlan

Institute

Traveling on the Wind

High on Dahl Radam

Drabk the Sharak of Okbra

Higher Dimensions

Ardean Science and Technology

Acknowledgments