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Title: The Planiverse: Computer Contact With a Two-Dimensional World by A. K. Dewdney ISBN: 0387989161 Publisher: Copernicus Books Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Sufi allegory through the computer screen
Comment: This astonishing book manages to be both a brilliant work of science fiction and an allegory of the search for truth of Islamic mystics or Sufis. This deeper level is well hidden, and many readers get immense pleasure from the book without even knowing it is there. The clues are to be found in the many Arabic words in the language of the Planiverse and in the fact that Yendred's quest ends in a shrine that is a square (the 2-dimensional equivalent of the cubic shrine - the Kaaba - that is at the centre of Islam). As Yendred is Dewdney spelt backwards (with Alice's speech defect which causes her to confuse W and R), one may deduce that the author is himself a Sufi seeker.
Rating: 5
Summary: Are you sure this is all there is?
Comment: When I was in high-school I had a very intelligent and immensely helpful English teacher, who taught me much of what writing skill I possess today. He came in highly excited one morning, to share with us about a new book he'd come across. Evidently, they had, through a computer, discovered an entirely new reality, that was two-dimensional! And this was an actual event, cutting edge stuff.
Well, a few days later, he came in, quite chagrined, to tell us that, as he read further through the book, he realized it was a work of fiction. But his description had been interesting enough to motivate me to read the book.
The Planiverse's reality is that real, and supported by that much scientific and mathematical principle- Dewdney has done his research, to bring us one of the most delightful what-ifs I've found. Imagine reality just like ours, but take out the third dimension. Everything is well supported, every area of life covered, and the drawings immensely helpful. You truly begin to feel for all the characters in the book. But it's not just an exercise in mathematical possibility. It is a rich story, telling of spiritual journey and insight, as Yendred travels to find his answers. And I still remember the ending as grippingly and eerily numinous, as we realize how closely the Planiverse and our Universe are connected, and how limited we are in comparison to the Eternal.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: I encourage others to pick this book up. It's great for an inquisitive high schooler (as I was) or an adult.
Dewdney does an excellent job of pulling the reader into the story- one feels as if they are sitting there right next to the screen, waiting for the next contact.
Difficult to put down, and difficult to go back to reality afterwards.
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Title: Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott ISBN: 048627263X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart ISBN: 073820675X Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott, Ian Stewart ISBN: 0738205419 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Spaceland by Rudy V. B. Rucker ISBN: 0765303663 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension by Rudolf Rucker ISBN: 0486234002 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1977 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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