"A man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultramundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise."
"Doctor Faustus, a well-respected German scholar, grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge—logic, medicine, law, and religion—and decides that he wants to learn to practice magic."
"In a world that exists on the two-dimensional plane, inhabitants—literal geometrical shapes—live in a highly-structured society organized into classes based on their number of sides."
"A real-life 18th-century tortoise,Timothy lived in an English garden for many years,
and was mentioned in a naturalist’s journals from that time.
Klinkenborg writes a book from Timothy’s point of view."
"A Victorian scientist claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time. He visits the future, arriving in the year 802,701 in what had once been London."
