For other uses, see Erewhon (disambiguation)."Over the Range" redirects here. For the 1937 book, see Over the Range (Idriess book).
Erewhon
First edition cover
Author
Samuel Butler
Language
English
Genre
Satire, Science fiction[1]
Publisher
Trübner and Ballantyne
Publication date
1872
Publication place
United Kingdom
Pages
246
OCLC
2735354
Dewey Decimal
823.8
LC Class
PR4349.B7 E7 1872 c. 1
Followed by
Erewhon Revisited
Text
Erewhon online
Map of part of New Zealand to illustrate Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ɛrɛhwɒn/[2]) is a novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published anonymously in 1872,[3] set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.[4]
The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand, where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years (1860–64), and explored parts of the interior of the South Island and wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1863).
The novel is one of the first to explore ideas of artificial intelligence, as influenced by Darwin's recently published On the Origin of Species (1859) and the machines developed out of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th to early 19th centuries). Specifically, it concerns itself, in the three-chapter "Book of the Machines", with the potentially dangerous ideas of machine consciousness and self-replicating machines.
^Canavan, Gerry (2018). The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press. pp. 57, 76–77. ISBN 978-1-31-669437-4
^The title itself is an anagram of the word "nowhere." In the preface to the first edition of his book, Butler specified that "The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short—thus, Ĕ-rĕ-whŏn." Nevertheless, the word is occasionally pronounced with two syllables as "air-hwun" or "air-one".
^Erewhon, or Over the Range (1st ed.). London: Trubner & Co. 1872. Retrieved 5 March 2016 – via Internet Archive.
^George Orwell, Erewhon, BBC Home Service, Talks for Schools, 8 June 1945
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