Spaceland Must Be Stopped!

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott from 1884 describes how A Square, an inhabitant of the 2-dimensional world of Flatland, encounters Lineland, Pointland, and Spaceland with the help of A Sphere.  Abbott explores the differences of worlds limited by dimensions and invites us to think about what a fourth-dimensional being might be like. A Sphere would visit Flatland once ev…