Any given night, a stroll through the streets of downtown Miami feels like a walk through a dystopian wasteland. Abandoned storefronts in forgotten buildings line dimly lit sidewalks; displaced bodies ...

The first three sections of the book are excerpted below. I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in ...

WE live in an age of adventure. Men are ready to join in expeditions to the North Pole or to the interior of the African continent, yet we will venture to say that the work before us describes a vast ...