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100 1 _aButler, Samuel,
_d1835-1902
245 1 0 _aErewhon; Or, Over the Range
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c1999
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
500 _aRelease date is 1999-09-01
508 _aProduced by David Price
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aSatire
653 _aUtopias -- Fiction
653 _aUtopian fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1906
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