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	Fourth Dimension Books
		This book is an excellent introduction to various dimensional systems and their corresponding behaviors in higher dimensions.
		The book is a splice of an X-Files type of story, and explanations on phenomena that occured in the story.
		I would recommend this book if you are new to the fourth dimension, but you can probably pass it up if you have already been introduced to the subject matter by other books.
	tetraspace.alkaline.org /books.htm (1063 words)

	Spaceland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is about the nightclub called Spaceland, for the science fiction novel by Rudy Rucker, see Spaceland (book).
		Spaceland is an alternative rock/indie rock nightclub in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
		The list of acts who have played Spaceland is quite long, ranging from veteran performers from the 1960s and 1970s like Arthur Lee and The Dictators to current major acts such as Supergrass, Jet, The Shore and The White Stripes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spaceland (177 words)

	Rudy Rucker's Spaceland Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Books on higher dimensions with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare.
		The eclectic Rucker is both a mathematician and science-fiction guru, and with the cold logic of the one and the inspired vision of the other, he covers an array of topics sure to stimulate your imagination and sense of wonder at the incredible vastness of our mathematical universe.
		This is because Spaceland is written by Rudy Rucker, a Silicon Valley professor of mathematics and computer science who is also a hard-SF writer with the most gonzo sensibility in science fiction.
	www.mathcs.sjsu.edu /faculty/rucker/spaceland.htm (462 words)

	Spaceland by Rucker Rudy - Used Books At Biblio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Spaceland : A Novel of the Fourth Dimension
		Books that are listed as new may or may not have small publishers mark, Vid...
		Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension (Qty: 4)
	www.biblio.com /books/20195828.html (629 words)

	Rudy Rucker's Spaceland Page
		The eclectic Rucker is both a mathematician and science-fiction guru, and with the cold logic of the one and the inspired vision of the other, he covers an array of topics sure to stimulate your imagination and sense of wonder at the incredible vastness of our mathematical universe.
		In the grand tradition of Jonathan Swift (with a tip of the hat to the ancestral mathematical absurdist, Lewis Carroll), Spaceland is a sharp morality tale in fool’s motley.
		This is because Spaceland is written by Rudy Rucker, a Silicon Valley professor of mathematics and computer science who is also a hard-SF writer with the most gonzo sensibility in science fiction.
	www.cs.sjsu.edu /faculty/rucker/spaceland.htm (462 words)

	Amazon.com: Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension: Books: Rudy Rucker
		My biggest problem is that, early on in the book, you decide on "good guys" and "bad guys," but in reading the whole book, you end up having to change your earlier assignment of those roles, in a way I find unnerving.
		This book is more of an adventure, while Stewart's is more didactic in terms of conveying a good impression of the spaces it treats; it also covers more varieties of spaces than this book.
		Spaceland isn't the first attempt to honor Abbott's classic "Flatland", it won't be the last, and it probably won't be the best.
	www.amazon.com /Spaceland-Fourth-Dimension-Rudy-Rucker/dp/0765303663 (1592 words)

	Rudy Rucker Book Reviews
		One of Rucker's funniest books, "Frek" chronicles the adventures of a likeable kid from the third millennium who finds himself the fulcrum of a galactic entertainment contract.
		After a slow start, "Spaceland" accelerates to a brisk pace that quickly proves as addictive as the hyperdimensional bagels Joe eats to nourish his "augmented" higher self.
		Unlike the fast-forward milieu of Rucker's "Ware" novels, "White Light" achieves his aim without the use of future technologies; the astral realms visited by the book's hero are a sort of internalized cyberspace predating the immersive electronic environments of William Gibson.
	www.mactonnies.com /rudyrucker.html (1338 words)

	Book List: November 2002-March 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		(The book isn't clear on that and I'm not familiar with the organization of that church body.) It's a collection of anecdotes and spiritual reflections meant to accompany the official reports of dialogues held between the ELCA and the Orthodox church.
		The benefit I received from this book was more in reminding me that my own worldviews are not universal and that sometimes there is another, equally valid way of looking at some aspect of life on this earth.
		But the book was good in that it put a human face on the statistics and perhaps even reveals some aspects of the reality of the working poor of which us rich folk aren't aware.
	www.scn.org /~bk416/b06.html (4169 words)

	[No title]
		This book can be divided into two main parts: 1) the first half or two-thirds of the book, which consists of Abbott's description of Flatland, its people and its social habits, and 2) the last third or so of the book in which Abbott describes the Square's encounter with Spaceland, the land of three dimensions.
		While the first half of the book is very interesting, it is not the part on which we will be focusing.
		The bulk of your classroom discussions of this book will be focusing on the last half or third of the book, the part in which the little two-dimensional square is introduced to a world vastly larger than he had ever imagined.
	www.pioneer.net /~tkerns/religsite/lecsite/flatlandlec.html (688 words)

	Young Adult Literature Project
		The book is somewhat of a timeless classic in its content and readability.
		Later on in the book he is introduced to the idea of a third dimension that is beyond the comprehension of anyone who resides in Flatland.
		Not to sound like a feminist, but I didn’t like how women were depicted in the book, anywhere from where they should "wiggle their posteriors" because they were lines that otherwise wouldn’t be seen easily by all to their low rank in the caste system and how they are treated because of this.
	www.uwsp.edu /Education/sslick/yal/flatland.htm (1532 words)

	Flatland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Thought out this book the expandion of people's way of looking at things seem to be expressed.
		However in the book it says that the higher classes of shapes produce art.
		During the time period of the book, women were also treated as less superior.
	las.alfred.edu /~agrove/spring00/egl281/abbott.html (1365 words)

	Flatland: A romance of many dimensions
		When I was in Spaceland I heard that your sailors have very similar experiences while they traverse your seas and discern some distant island or coast lying on the horizon.
		The far-off land may have bays, forelands, angles in and out to any number and extent; yet at a distance you see none of these (unless indeed your sun shines bright upon them revealing the projections and retirements by means of light and shade), nothing but a grey unbroken line upon the water.
		That which is with you in Spaceland an unmixed evil, blotting out the landscape, depressing the spirits, and enfeebling the health, is by us recognized as a blessing scarcely inferior to air itself, and as the Nurse of arts and Parent of sciences.
	www.geom.uiuc.edu /~banchoff/Flatland (16440 words)

	Locus Online: Field Inspections, June 2002
		Gerald Jonas's SF column covers books by Rudy Rucker and Greg Egan, with a brief mention of Liz Williams.
		Jonas is baffled by the high-density cosmological speculation in Egan's Schild's Ladder (Eos).
		In the Post's Book world, Robert Aubry Davis profiles Lemony Snicket; while Elizabeth Ward reviews YA books by Angela Carter, David Clement-Davies, Andrew Clements, and Ben Jeapes.
	www.locusmag.com /2002/Weblogs/FieldInspections06.html (1487 words)

	EvilSponge: Concert: SUNDAY'S BEST w/ Velvet Teen and Exit
		Monday is free night at Spaceland, and this used to be the night when the least amount of people would show up.
		Although it was quite crowded, the show was still enjoyable and the crowd was not too intrusive, as Spaceland is a large open space with several seperate rooms.
		Spaceland is a great free venue every Monday night and there's normally some good quality acts, such as we had this night.
	www.evilsponge.org /concert/Exit__17Jun02.htm (533 words)

	Review of Rudy Rucker's Frek and the Elixir
		The book is divided into three parts; the first third is called “The Departure” and it takes that long for Frek to get off Earth.
		When I looked back at the book, I could see how the template of the character essentially breaks down into that old science fiction cliché, the young boy who grows up and becomes all powerful (à la Dune and many others), but Rucker cleverly disguises the overly familiar character arc.
		In some ways, Rucker is a literary descendant of Philip K. Dick, and this book felt to me like the masterpiece of trashy culture, ordinary people, and wacked-out ideas that Dick never quite wrote.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/frek&elixir.htm (1179 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The two-dimensional narrator 'A Square' describes his flat universe, as it appears to a Spaceland observer, and as it appears to its inhabitants.
		As the Spaceland visitor passes through Flatland, he appears first as a point which grows through a succession of circular slices until it reaches its full diameter, then shrinks back down to a point and disappears.
		Much of the rest of the book is given to the education of A Square, who has to learn to.
	www.geom.uiuc.edu /~banchoff/ISR/ISRsummary.html (332 words)

	Book Review
		But when he is visited by a sphere from Spaceland, he finds it hard to deny the reality of a third dimension.
		He is baffled when the king and queen of that country refuse to acknowledge his existance, because they cannot, in their sphere of experience, imagine that there could be any dimension higher than the first.
		He is finally convinced when the Sphere allows him to visit Spaceland, where he is able to experience first-hand the third dimension - something he never thought was possible when he lived in Flatland.
	www.allreaders.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=77939 (195 words)

	MemeStreams \| MemeStreams Discussion
		For those in San Fran, he'll be at Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia St., today (Saturday, June 15) at 2 PM for a reading and signing.
		NYT says: Rudy Rucker's Spaceland challenges readers to imagine what life might be like in a world with four spatial dimensions.
		Rudy Rucker's Spaceland challenges readers to imagine what life might be like in a world with four spatial dimensions.
	www.memestreams.net /thread/bid1449 (227 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| Rudy Rucker \| A Dream of Flatland 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The good news is that Spaceland will be published in June by Tor Books.
		Spaceland tells the story of a Silicon Valley middle manager named Joe Cube who encounters beings from the fourth dimension.
		Spaceland will be published in May of 2002 by Tor books, and The Infinite Matrix thanks them for their permission to publish this excerpt.
	www.infinitematrix.net /stories/excerpts/spaceland1.html (294 words)

	Math Trek: A Stranger from Spaceland, Science News Online, Jan. 1, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The book’s central figure and narrator, "A Square," takes visitors into a two-dimensional world where a race of rigid geometric forms live and love, work and play.
		He produced dozens of books, including school textbooks, historical and biblical studies, theological novels, and a well-regarded Shakespearean grammar that strongly influenced the study of the Bard’s plays.
		After a harrowing but eye-opening adventure in Spaceland, A Square awakes on New Year’s Day, 2000, refreshed and filled with an evangelical fervor to proclaim and propagate the Gospel of Three Dimensions.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20000101/mathtrek.asp (1221 words)

	Spaceland by Rudy Rucker
		This was enhanced by the sneering tone of the novel towards the characters, meant to create a direct bond between reader and author but it just left me feeling disconnected from the whole book.
		This isolation from the novel was also created by the ideas explored in ‘Spaceland’ - particularly when dealing with the fourth dimension.
		The language seemed remote, the characters were mere vehicles for Rucker to explore ideas or to mock stereotypes and there was no shared ground between the reader and the narrator of the novel.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /articles/books/2003/nz7030.php (489 words)

	Spaceland Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		These Spaceland Notes were last revised on July 16, 2001, when the final edit of Spaceland was mailed in.
		More thoughts about mainstream SF books: the book where the guy travels back in time to stop Reagan from being president.
		I might use the gimmick of presenting the book as a manuscript entrusted to me, and then I could have Notes and Drawings.
	www.mathcs.sjsu.edu /faculty/rucker/spacelandnotes.htm (6763 words)

	Amazon.ca: Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		In order to understand this twenty-two chapter book (first published in the mid-1880s) by Edwin A. Abbot (1838 to 1926), you have to understand what is meant by the word "dimension," a word in the book's subtitle "A Romance of Many Dimensions." A dimension is any measureable distance such as length or width.
		Part two (ten chapters) of this book is very interesting since Square tells us of his visits to "Lineland" (a land of one dimension), "Spaceland" (a land of three dimensions, a land Earthlings are used too), and "Pointland" (a land of no dimensions).
		I bought this book on a whim because it was so cheap, and I rather enjoyed it, despite it being a very short book.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/048627263X (1637 words)

	Booking
		If you have a band or event to book at Spaceland...
		Check out our website and listen to the bands who have played here in the past or those that are playing in the near future.
		Basically you should understand what type of bands we book.
	www.clubspaceland.com /booking.htm (228 words)

	Chris Watson’s Bookends: ‘Spaceland’ goes way beyond the realm of mathematics First published in 1880 (or maybe ...
		Her book, which investigates the connection between art and spirit, provides a bounty of exercises for the body, the voice and the imagination.
		At $14.95, the book is available at area bookstores or by contacting the publisher at P.O. Box 1028, Lafayette, CA 94549, or by calling (925) 283-3184, or e-mailing peter@greatwestbooks.com, or on the Web at www.greatwestbooks.com.
		It’s a book that begs to be read more than once for the many clues so subtly dropped by the author.
	santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2002/June/30/style/stories/04style.htm (1325 words)

	LA Weekly
		True, Spaceland itself has changed very little over the years (relocated stage, better sound system, a funky space-age lounge theme in the backroom — though the bar business is still owned by the Wolfram family, not Frank).
		The latter may be true in some sense; at the same time, Spaceland’s rising national (and international) stature has been a boon to local bands of a certain level, and Monday is probably the best-attended new-artist night in the city.
		Spaceland Productions is constantly expanding, now booking the Echo and the forthcoming X-Plex (both co-owned by Frank and Garo), as well as the Barnsdall Art Park Theater.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/05/20/music-gladstone.php (1314 words)

	Reactions to Gulliver's Travels and Plato's Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		In Book VII of Plato's Republic, Socrates and his buffoon of a sidekick, Glaucon are deep in conversation covering several topics.
		This is a very interesting part of the book, especially regarding its parallels to Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland.
		At some point in the story, a member of Spaceland (a sphere) offers to share with A square the secrets of space.
	www.brown.edu /Students/OHJC/ma8/papers/w3gp.htm (645 words)

	Greed and the Fourth Dimension
		Spaceland is a wildly satirical tale of Silicon Valley, complete with the Y2K crisis, venture capitalism, insane housing prices, and plain old greed.
		Abbot’s book is set in a two-dimensional world, as the title suggests, and the first half is a dry history of this rather hidebound society.
		Spaceland is recommended for anyone interested in the specific mathematical games of Flatland and it’s likely the best possible sequel for that book.
	theculturalgutter.com /sciencefiction/greed_and_the_fourth_dimension.html (1312 words)

	Boing Boing: Rucker's notes for Spaceland
		I heard Rudy Rucker read from his new novel, Spaceland, yesterday at Borderlands Books in San Francisco.
		He mentioned that when he's working on a novel, he keeps a diary of notes and thoughts and frustrations that occur to him while he's at it, and that this notebook is often half as long as the book itself.
		Spaceland is a retelling of Flatland, from the perspective of four-dimensional beings who discover Earth's poor, benighted three-dimensional inhabitants.
	www.boingboing.net /2002/06/16/ruckers_notes_for_sp.html (514 words)

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