A favorite novel of mine actually! Hard to believe that it was written in the 1800s, yet still Abbott understood the 4th dimension better than most people today.
> Hard to believe that it was written in the 1800s
Aside from all the misogyny and the style of writing, you mean?
It was the 1800s. I'm sure that 150 years from now, everything you and I are writing now will be offensive in ways we don't understand today.
Re:4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys
by throwaway135634 on Saturday June 03, 2017 @12:18AM
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To be fair I think the misogyny was satirical
Edit: Didn't notice it was mentioned at the end of the comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14472395, there's a free version linked from archive.org.