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In a desire for better sheep-farming land on an unnamed British colony, Higgs decides to traverse the distant mountain range. On the other side he discovers not the empty rolling plains of his imagination but an entirely new civilization: the land of Erewhon. Inducted into the ways of their culture, he attempts to transcribe as best he can their thoughts on birth, death, machines, the production of food, their financial system, and many more subjects that on first glance seem absurd to the narrator but often end up revealing absurdity in his own thinking.
Erewhon was extremely well received on its initial (and anonymous) publication, with its satirical commentary on contemporary Victorian attitudes ensuring its commercial success. Samuel Butler incorporated into the novel his philosophical ideas, including chapters founded on his interest in Darwinian evolution theory, and on the potential rise in artificial consciousness. George Orwell held the novel in high regard, and the Erewhonian philosophy on the danger of machines even made its way into Frank Herbert’s Dune series as the “Butlerian jihad.”
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Mar 15, 2019, Independently published, Independently Published
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2017, Independently Published
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Oct 17, 2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Nov 27, 2016, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Erewhon: O al otro lado de las montañas
Feb 24, 2012, Ediciones Akal, S.A.
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Oct 15, 2010, Aziloth Books
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January 1, 2007, ReadHowYouWant.com
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January 1, 2007, ReadHowYouWant.com
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May 5, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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June 30, 2004, Ediciones Catedra S.A.
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January 1998, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
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April 1998, Prometheus Books
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September 1997, Assembled Stories
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Erewhon, or, Over the range
1995, A.C. Fifield, W. Briggs
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Erewhon oder Jenseits der Berge
December 1, 1994, Eichborn
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November 1981, University of Delaware Press
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1981, University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses
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January 1923, Classic Publishers
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Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards with the "h" and "w" transposed. The starting chapters detailing the discovery of Erewhon were based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand as a young man. Butler was possibly the first to write about the idea that machines might one day develop consciousness through the process of Darwinian Selection.
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