What is "flatlanders"

Usage examples of "flatlanders".

Well, that is my fate: and it is as natural for us Flatlanders to lock up a Square for preaching the Third Dimension, as it is for you Spacelanders to lock up a Cube for preaching the Fourth.

Would flatlanders have physical presence in our world -- that is, could we perceive a two-dimensional universe embedded in our own?

Abbott did not consider this in his first edition, but in the second he says that A Square eventually believes that flatlanders have a small but real height in our universe.

He finds that the triangular soldiers can indeed cut intruders from higher dimensions, and flatlanders are tasty when he gets hungry.

We have the forests, the animals, birds, and fish that the flatlanders would find rare and exotic.

Two flatlanders come to live in our hills, and a darkness stirs across the world.

And the Kraj and the Genji argue one way, and the Basanga and the Katjen another, which is so much like the flatlanders, it frightens me.

Would they say the Javitz fall because I brought flatlanders into the mountains and the Javitz suffer for my sin and so our fate is none of their affair?

That was the province of the flatlanders, all brief and hurried because they lacked the time to ponder things.