Butler, Samuel 1835-1902 creator text utu 1999 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon Release date is 1999-09-01 Produced by David Price Original publication data not identified Satire Utopias -- Fiction Utopian fiction PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1906 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1906 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133051.0 1906