Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler
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"Erewhon; Or, Over the Range" by Samuel Butler is a satirical novel published in 1872. A traveler discovers a strange fictional country where society operates by inverted rules: illness is treated as crime, while criminals receive medical treatment. The book satirizes Victorian England while pioneering speculations about machine consciousness and artificial intelligence in its famous "Book of the Machines" section. Drawing on Butler's experiences as a sheep farmer in New Zealand, this
darkly comic work imagines a world where compassion and punishment are bizarrely reversed, and where machines may evolve beyond human control. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | Erewhon; Or, Over the Range |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon |
| Credits | Produced by David Price |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 55.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Satire |
| Subject | Utopias -- Fiction |
| Subject | Utopian fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 1906 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-01906-2 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 1999 |
| Last Update | Aug 5, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 4598 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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