The protagonist, Professor Katsumi, has been in charge of developing a computer/information system capable of predicting human behaviour. It is a complex story set in a near-future Japan threatened by the melting of the polar icecaps. However, Dai-Yon Kampyoki (1959 trans E.Dale Saunders as Inter Ice US) is undoubtedly sf. He is known mainly for his work outside the sf field, like Suna no Onna (1962 trans E.Dale Saunders as Woman in the Dunes 1964 US), and has been deeply influenced by Western models from Franz KAFKA to Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) the intensely extreme conditions to which he subjects his alienated protagonists allow a dubious sf interpretation of novels like Moetsukita Chizu (1967 trans E.Dale Saunders as The Ruined Map 1969 US), or Tanin no Kao (1964 trans E.Dale Saunders as The Face of Another 1966 US). ABE, KOBO (1924-1993) Japanese novelist, active since 1948, several of whose later novels have been translated into English. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN The INVISIBLE MAN. Flatland is a study in MATHEMATICS and PERCEPTION, and has stayed popular since its first publication. In the second part, Mr Square travels in a dream to the one-dimensional universe of Lineland, whose inhabitants are unable to conceive of a two-dimensional universe he is in turn visited from Spaceland by a three-dimensional visitor - named Sphere because he is spherical - whom Mr Square cleverly persuades to believe in four-dimensional worlds as well. The first is a highly entertaining description of the two-dimensional world of Flatland, in which inhabitants' shapes establish their (planar) hierarchical status. Narrated and illustrated by Mr Square, the novel falls into two parts.
ABBOTT, EDWIN A(BBOTT) (1839-1926) UK clergyman, academic and writer whose most noted work, published originally as by A Square, is FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS (1884). In The Monkey-Wrench Gang (19) and its sequel, Hayduke Lives! (1990), this pessimism is countered by prescriptions for physically sabotaging the polluters of the West which, when put into practice, nearly displace normal reality structure-hitting, as practised by 21st century saboteurs in Bruce STERLING's Heavy Weather (1994), seems to derive from EA's premise Good Times (fixup 1980) is set in a balkanized USA after nuclear fallout has helped destroy civilization an Indian shaman, along with other characters similar to those in The Monkey-Wrench Gang, fights back against tyranny. SF&F encyclopedia (A-A) ABBEY, EDWARD (1927-1989) US writer, perhaps best known for his numerous essays on the US West, in which he clearly expresses a scathing iconoclasm about human motives and their effects on the world.
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by John Clute, Peter Nicholls
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