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The Planiverse

Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World

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  1. Alexander Keewatin Dewdney

    1. University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Arde

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 1-8

  3. A House by the Sea

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 9-21

  4. On Fiddib Har

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 23-39

  5. Walking to is Felblt

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 41-58

  6. City below Ground

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 59-82

  7. The Trek

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 83-106

  8. The Punizlan Institute

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 107-136

  9. Traveling on the Wind

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 137-160

  10. High on Dahl Radam

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 161-184

  11. Drabk the Sharak of Okbra

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 185-206

  12. Higher Dimensions

    • Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
    Pages 207-216

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 217-247
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About this book

When The Planiverse ?rst appeared 16 years ago, it caught more than a few readers off guard. The line between willing suspension of dis- lief and innocent acceptance, if it exists at all, is a thin one. There were those who wanted to believe, despite the tongue-in-cheek subtext, that we had made contact with a two-dimensional world called Arde, a di- shaped planet embedded in the skin of a vast, balloon-shaped space called the planiverse. It is tempting to imagine that those who believed, as well as those who suspended disbelief, did so because of a persuasive consistency in the cosmology and physics of this in?nitesimally thin universe, and x preface to the millennium edition in its bizarre but oddly workable organisms. This was not just your r- of-the-mill universe fashioned out of the whole cloth of wish-driven imagination. The planiverse is a weirder place than that precisely - cause so much of it was “worked out” by a virtual team of scientists and technologists. Reality, even thepseudoreality of such a place, is - variably stranger than anything we merely dream up.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    Alexander Keewatin Dewdney

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Planiverse

  • Book Subtitle: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World

  • Authors: Alexander Keewatin Dewdney

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0199-8

  • Publisher: Copernicus New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98916-7

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0199-8

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 247

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Originally published by Simon & Schuster, Riverside, NJ, USA

  • Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Theory of Computation, Computer Science, general

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