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n. 1 (context pejorative English) A person who lives at low altitude - used by those living at higher altitudes 2 (context physics English) An inhabitant of or observer in a universe with two spatial dimensions.
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Flatlander (ISBN 0-345-39480-1) is a 1995 collection of stories by Larry Niven, all set in Known Space. It is the definitive collection of all stories by Niven about ARM agent Gil Hamilton. Many of the stories revolve around the theme of involuntary organ transplantation.
The book includes the stories Death by Ecstasy (formerly The Organleggers), The Defenseless Dead, ARM, The Patchwork Girl, and The Woman in Del Rey Crater—the only previously unpublished story in the collection.
The collection is essentially a replacement for a 1976 collection called The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton (ISBN 0-345-24868-6) which contained only the first three stories. The Patchwork Girl was also published alone as a novel in 1986 (ISBN 0-441-65315-4).
The title derives from the in-universe term flatlander, referring to an Earth-living human, as opposed to those who do not live on planets. This is because the land looks flat.
Flatlander may refer to:
- "Flatlander" (short story), a 1967 story by Larry Niven
- Flatlander (short story collection), a 1975 collection of short stories by Larry Niven
- Flatlander (Niven), a term used in Larry Niven's works
- A character in the 1884 Edwin Abbott novella Flatland
- The Flatlanders, a country music band
- Andy Morin, producer for hip hop group Death Grips often referred to as "Flatlander."
- Flatlander, a term for newcomers to the U.S. state of Vermont
"Flatlander" is an English language science fiction short story written in 1967 by Larry Niven. It is the third in the series of Known Space stories featuring crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. The short story was originally published in Worlds of If, March 1967, and reprinted in Neutron Star, Larry Niven, New York: Ballantine, 1968, pp. 129–171 (ISBN 0-345-29665-6), and Crashlander, Larry Niven, New York: Ballantine, 1994, pp. 57–101 (ISBN 0-345-38168-8).
Flatlander is a term used in Larry Niven's fictional universe of Known Space. It is also the title of two works in the Known Space canon.
Usage examples of "flatlander".
The rough diagram given above will make it clear to any Spaceland child that the Sphere, ascending in the three positions indicated there, must needs have manifested himself to me, or to any Flatlander, as a Circle, at first of full size, then small, and at last very small indeed, approaching to a Point.
She was small even by flatlander standards, beginning to bulge with our second child.
He was a gaudy flatlander athlete, too aware of the limps and lames around him, very aware that any woman was his for the asking.
Everywhere in human space a flatlander is a schnook who never gets above the atmosphere.
I found my mind wandering far back across the decades, to the days when I was a flatlander myself, my feet firmly beneath the ground, my head never higher than seven feet above the desert sands.
For all his vast self-confidence, vast riches, vast generosity, and vast bulk, he was still only a flatlander and thus a little bit helpless.
By flatlander standards she was lovely enough to make a fast fortune on tridee.
It seemed familiar: rich and fruity, with a flatlander accent that was not quite true.
He came toward me, moving lightly and confidently, a flatlander in prime condition.
We spotted Ausfaller easily: a rounded, moon-faced flatlander with thick, dark wavy hair and a thin black mustache.
The flatlander phobia is a bone-deep dread of being cut off from Earth.
Still, torpedoes had been running the gauntlet without loss for twenty years, and the only detectable flatlander activity had been radar beams in the last two or three.
If they thought he was going to Mars, with or without a flatlander for company.
Your flatlander government has finally picked up its feet and sent us some ships.
I talked fast, knowing that that and my flatlander accent would make me incomprehensible to any breeder who might be listening.