23-07-2014 5:53 PM
I have just read Slime Dynamics by Ben Woodward that I was given last christmas
as a joke present and it was really fascinating and I would recommend it to everyone.
My question is can anyone suggest any other non-fiction books in a similar vein?
23-07-2014 6:08 PM
Flatland is good. It is fictionalised philosophy
23-07-2014 6:16 PM
I already have that on my to read list after downloading the gutenburg dvd
It looks fascinating, i have also been looking for the film at a decent price
but no luck so far
24-07-2014 5:16 PM
Me too. It's a very short film but very expensive. I did find the sequel someone wrote (a book) called Flatterland.
28-07-2014 11:49 AM
Yes, "Flatterland", by Ian Stewart, is a brilliant modernisation of Abbot's 19th-century book.
It has a female heroine, Victoria "(Vikki") Line. She's a young, trendy, 2-D gal. She still keeps, for strictly sentimental reasons, her childhood toys such as "My Little Polygon". But after placacating her grumpy Square dad "Grosvener", by bringing him a rectangle of lager, she goes off to surf the "Interline", and eventually discovers a new multi-dimensional Universe.
"Flatterland" is quite a long book. It has lot of witty detail, and scientific ideas. Yet, somehow it lacks the charm of Abbot's sparse original. Thus while I've re-read Abbot many times, and can keep doing so, I never feel like re-reading "Flatterland".
A much better book is A K Dewdney's "The Planiverse". This is a vivid account of a living, functional 2-D Universe, with - most importantly - marvellous illustrations which bring it to life.
For anyone interested in 2-D, I thoroughly recommend "The Planiverse".