01644cam a22003253u 45000010005000000030007000050050017000120060002000290070005000310080041000360400011000770410017000880500007001051000031001122450032001432640051001753000047002263360026002733370026002993380036003255000074003615000031004355080028004665200683004945340045011776530011012226530023012336530020012568560042012761906UtSlPG20260610133051.0mcr n260607r1999||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aButler, Samuel,d1835-190210aErewhon; Or, Over the Range 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c1999  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon  aRelease date is 1999-09-01  aProduced by David Price  a"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.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aSatire  aUtopias -- Fiction  aUtopian fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1906