TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler,Samuel
TI  - Erewhon; Or, Over the Range
AV  - PR 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Satire
KW  - Utopias -- Fiction
KW  - Utopian fiction
N1  - 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
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1906
ER  -