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Erewhon

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Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872. [1]

74 relations: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, Ai Kijima, Ananym, Artificial intelligence in fiction, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Bob Rickard, Darwin among the Machines, Double entendre, Erewhon (disambiguation), Erewhon Basin, Erewhon Organic Cereal, Erewhon Revisited, Existential risk from artificial general intelligence, Fortean Times, Gateway to the Great Books, Hal Duncan, Higgs, History of modern literature, History of science fiction, Homo unius libri, List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, List of dystopian literature, List of English novelists, List of English writers (A-C), List of fictional countries, List of fictional countries by region, List of fictional universes in literature, List of Old Salopians, List of Penguin Classics, List of people from Nottingham, List of satirists and satires, List of science fiction novels, List of utopian literature, List of years in literature, Literary Taste: How to Form It, Lost world, Media of New Zealand, Mickey Mouse degrees, Mrs Grundy, Nehwon, New Zealand literature, News from Nowhere, Nicholas Trübner, Nowhere, Nutrition, Paul Hawken, Paul Jordan-Smith, Plant rights, Rangitata River, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, ..., Robert Gibbings, Rockwell Kent, Rohan (Middle-earth), Role of Honour, Samuel Butler (novelist), Self-replicating machine, Sheep station, Smile (Doctor Who), Social science fiction, Station (New Zealand agriculture), Technophobia, The Haunted Bookshop, The Press, Thomas More, Timeline of science fiction, University of Cambridge, Utopian and dystopian fiction, Vril, World of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 1863, 1863 in literature, 1872 in literature, 1872 in the United Kingdom, 1919 in literature. Expand index (24 more) »

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder is the most popular book by James De Mille.

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Ai Kijima

Ai Kijima, born in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan, is a contemporary artist residing in New York City.

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Ananym

An ananym is a word whose spelling is derived by reversing the spelling of another word.

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Artificial intelligence in fiction

The literature of science fiction and fantasy is extensive and includes many subgenres which includes artificial intelligence as a recurrent theme in science fiction.

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Blair Hughes-Stanton

Blair Rowlands Hughes-Stanton (22 February 1902 – 6 June 1981) was a major figure in the English wood engraving revival in the twentieth century.

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Bob Rickard

Robert "Bob" J M Rickard is the founder and editor of the UK magazine Fortean Times: The Journal of Strange Phenomena, which debuted in 1973 under its original title The News.

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Darwin among the Machines

"Darwin among the Machines" is the name of an article published in The Press newspaper on 13 June 1863 in Christchurch, New Zealand, which references the work of Charles Darwin in the title.

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Double entendre

A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.

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Erewhon (disambiguation)

Erewhon is a novel by Samuel Butler.

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Erewhon Basin

Erewhon Basin is an extensive ice-free area in Antarctica.

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Erewhon Organic Cereal

Erewhon Organic Cereal (pronounced AIR-wahn) is a food brand specializing in pure ingredients and simply processed, organic whole foods that support digestive health.

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Erewhon Revisited

Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son (1901) is a satirical novel by Samuel Butler, forming a belated sequel to his Erewhon (1872).

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Existential risk from artificial general intelligence

Existential risk from artificial general intelligence is the hypothesis that substantial progress in artificial general intelligence (AI) could someday result in human extinction or some other unrecoverable global catastrophe.

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Fortean Times

Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort.

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Gateway to the Great Books

Gateway to the Great Books is a 10-volume series of books originally published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.

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Hal Duncan

Hal Duncan (born 21 October 1971, real name Alasdair) is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Higgs

Higgs may refer to.

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History of modern literature

The history of literature in the Modern period in Europe begins with the Age of Enlightenment and the conclusion of the Baroque period in the 18th century, succeeding the Renaissance and Early Modern periods.

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History of science fiction

The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees.

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Homo unius libri

Homo unius libri ("(a) man of one book") is a Latin phrase attributed to Thomas Aquinas in a literary tradition going back to at least the 17th century, bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) being the earliest known writer in English to have done so.

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List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction works as portrayed in literature, film, television, and, comics.

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List of dystopian literature

This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature.

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List of English novelists

This is a list of novelists from England.

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List of English writers (A-C)

List of English writers lists writers in English, born or raised in England (or who lived in England for a lengthy period), who already have Wikipedia pages.

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List of fictional countries

This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.

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List of fictional countries by region

This list of fictional countries groups fictional countries and imagined nations together, by the region of the world in which they are supposed to be located.

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List of fictional universes in literature

This is a list of fictional universes in literature.

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List of Old Salopians

List of Old Salopians is a list of some of the many notable alumni of Shrewsbury School, a leading UK independent boarding and day school in Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England.

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List of Penguin Classics

This is a list of books published as Penguin Classics.

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List of people from Nottingham

This is a list of notable people with a Wikipedia page, who have been or are associated with Nottingham and district (postcodes NG1–NG16), arranged by category and date of birth.

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List of satirists and satires

Below is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire – humorous social criticism.

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List of science fiction novels

This is a list of science fiction novels, novel series, and collections of linked short stories.

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List of utopian literature

This is a list of utopian literature.

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List of years in literature

This page gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events.

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Literary Taste: How to Form It

Literary Taste: How to Form it is a long essay by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1909, with a revised edition by his friend Frank Swinnerton appearing in 1937.

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Lost world

The lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown world out of time, place, or both.

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Media of New Zealand

The media of New Zealand include television stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and websites.

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Mickey Mouse degrees

Mickey Mouse degrees (or Mickey Mouse courses, known as bird courses in Canada) is a term for university degree courses regarded as worthless or irrelevant.

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Mrs Grundy

Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety.

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Nehwon

Nehwon is the fictional world created by Fritz Leiber in which his heroes, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, adventure.

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New Zealand literature

New Zealand literature is literature written in or by the people of New Zealand.

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News from Nowhere

News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris.

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Nicholas Trübner

Nicholas Trübner (17 June 1817 – 20 March 1884), born Nikolaus Trübner, was a German-English publisher, bookseller and linguist.

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Nowhere

Nowhere may refer to.

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Nutrition

Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.

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Paul Hawken

Paul Gerard Hawken (born February 8, 1946) is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist.

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Paul Jordan-Smith

Paul Jordan-Smith (April 19, 1885 – June 17, 1971) was an American Universalist minister who also worked as a writer, lecturer and editor.

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Plant rights

Plant rights are rights to which plants may be entitled.

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Rangitata River

The Rangitata River is one of the braided rivers that helped form the Canterbury Plains in southern New Zealand.

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Robert Ellis Dudgeon

Robert Ellis Dudgeon (17 March 1820 – 8 September 1904) was a Scottish homeopath.

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Robert Gibbings

Robert John Gibbings (23 March 1889 – 19 January 1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor, and for his books on travel and natural history.

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Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882 – March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager.

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Rohan (Middle-earth)

Rohan (from Sindarin Rochand) is a kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy setting of Middle-earth.

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Role of Honour

Role of Honour, first published in 1984, was the fourth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.

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Samuel Butler (novelist)

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903.

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Self-replicating machine

A self-replicating machine is a type of autonomous robot that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature.

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Sheep station

A sheep station is a large property (station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and meat.

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Smile (Doctor Who)

"Smile" is the second episode of the tenth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Social science fiction

Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology/space opera and more with speculation about society.

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Station (New Zealand agriculture)

A station, in the context of New Zealand agriculture, is a large farm dedicated to the grazing of sheep and cattle.

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Technophobia

Technophobia (from Greek τέχνη technē, "art, skill, craft" and φόβος phobos, "fear") is the fear or dislike of advanced technology or complex devices, especially computers.

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The Haunted Bookshop

The Haunted Bookshop is the 1919 novel by Christopher Morley, now in the public domain in the United States.

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The Press

The Press is a daily newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (7 February 14786 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

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Timeline of science fiction

This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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Utopian and dystopian fiction

The utopia and its opposite, the dystopia, are genres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures.

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Vril

The Coming Race is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.

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World of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The world of The League of Extraordinary Gentleman is a fictional universe created by Alan Moore in the comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, where all of the characters and events from literature (and possibly the entirety of fiction) coexist.

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1863

January-March.

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1863 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1863.

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1872 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1872.

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1872 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1872 in the United Kingdom.

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1919 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1919.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon

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