History Trivia / Flatland

* ReferencedBy: A number of stories are unofficial sequels to or imitations of ''Flatland''; others were inspired by it, and still others use this story to explain the concept of dimensions beyond our own.
** Creator/CarlSagan laid it out in the ''Series/CosmosAPersonalVoyage'' episode, ''[[http://www.hulu.com/watch/63318/cosmos-the-edge-of-forever#s-p1-so-i0 The Edge of Forever]]''.
** ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' has an episode with an alien freely inspired by ''Flatland''.
** And in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', Elfangor explains the abilities of the Ellimist by telling Loren to imagine that they were Flatties, lived on a sheet of paper, and could be imprisoned by the three-dimensional Ellimist drawing a square around them... or freed by being plucked up off the paper. Well, they're Cubies.
** And then there's ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. The writers certainly know how to please a demographic.
** At one point during their interdimensional travels in ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'', the protagonists are accidentally transported to Flatland, where they almost suffocate.
** '''The Hypernaut''' from ''UsefulNotes/NineteenSixtyThree'' has a Flatland in his space station.
** Flatland and its inhabitants end up as the MacGuffin of the backstory for ''{{Transformers}} Alternity'' which, itself, deals extensively with the concepts of pan-dimensional transcendence. You know, [[MerchandiseDriven to sell toys]].
** [[http://www.forgottenfutures.co.uk/others.htm The Original Flatland Role Playing Game]] by Marcus L Rowland. "Action and adventure in a world where characters are supposed to be two-dimensional!"
** The ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "2-D Blacktop" is focused around ''Flatland''.
** Flatland is often used to teach 4-D astrophysics by analogy.
** When Bill Cipher (of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' fame) was asked on his CharacterBlog what he believed spawned his existence, he said, "EDWIN ABBOT ABBOT HAD A DECENT IDEA". In the SeriesFinale, he reveals that he's from the second dimension, and it's all but stated that his motivation for becoming a multiverse-hopping "dream demon" is him basically taking the Gospel of Three Dimensions to an (il)logical extreme.
** The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]" deals mostly with [[StarfishAliens 2-D aliens from another plane of reality]] , and the Twelfth Doctor even makes a subtle reference to ''Flatland'' when he starts musing about how a universe of only two dimensions has been theorised about for a long time.
** Briefly mentioned in Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/MereChristianity'', on the Trinity: human beings can no more grok the idea of a being with multiple persons than a Flatlander could grok the idea of a cube being composed of multiple squares.

** Briefly mentioned in C.S. Lewis's ''Literature/MereChristianity'', on the Trinity: human beings can no more grok the idea of a being with multiple persons than a Flatlander could grok the idea of a cube being composed of multiple squares.

** ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' has an episode with an alien freely inspired by Flatland.

** The ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "2-D Blacktop".
** Flatland is used to teach 4-D astrophysics by analogy.
** When [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]] was asked on his CharacterBlog what he believed spawned his existence, he said, "EDWIN ABBOT ABBOT HAD A DECENT IDEA". In the finale, he reveals he's from the second dimension.

* DuelingMovies: ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland_(2007_film) Flatland]]'' (2007) with ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland:_The_Movie Flatland: The Movie]]''.

** ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' has an episode with an alien freely inspired by Flatland.

** When [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]] was asked on his CharacterBlog what he believed spawned his existence, he said, "EDWIN ABBOT ABBOT HAD A DECENT IDEA".