Charles Howard Hinton was a fantasy writer.
 The story described by John Dewey is actually titled "An Unfinished Communication" and is part of the second series of "Scientific Romances"
== Influence ==Hinton's advocacy of the tesseract as a means to perceive higher dimensions spawned a long lineage of science fiction, fantasy, and spiritual works that similarly refer to the tesseract as a way to understandor even accesshigher dimensions, including Charles Leadbeater's Clairvoyance (1899), Claude Bragdon's A Primer of Higher Space (1913), Algernon Blackwood's Victim of Higher Space (1914), H

