# Erewhon; Or, Over the Range

By Samuel Butler.

"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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Satire; Utopias -- Fiction; Utopian fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Erewhon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/1874) by Samuel Butler (8 h, English)

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