 First edition | |
| Author | Dionys Burger |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bolland : een roman van gekromde ruimten en uitdijend heelal |
| Translator | Cornelie J. Rheinboldt |
| Language | Dutch |
| Subject | Mathematics, Flatland, The Big Bang, Dimensions |
| Genre | Science fiction/science |
Publication date | 1957 |
| Publication place | United States |
Published in English | 1965 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 208[1] |
Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe is a 1965 translation of Bolland : een roman van gekromde ruimten en uitdijend heelal, a 1957 novel by Dionys Burger, and is a sequel to Flatland,[2] a novel by "A Square" (a pen name of Edwin Abbott Abbott). The novel expands upon the social and mathematical foundations on which Flatland is based. It is markedly different from the first novel in that it has a more prosaic ending and treatment of society.
- ^ Burger, Dionys (1983). "Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe" at Amazon.com. ISBN 0064635740.
- ^ Stewart, Ian (2008). "Notes". The Annotated Flatland. By Abbott, Edwin A. Basic Books. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-0-7867-2183-2.