Erewhon; or, Over the Range

'''Butler, Samuel. Erewhon'; or, Over the Range''. London: Trübner, 1872. New York: NAL, 1960. Afterword by Kingsley Amis.

Described by Sargent as "The classic utopian satire." See esp. chs. 23 -25, "The Book of the Machines," for organism vs. mechanism, machine takeover, humans as part of a mechanized system, and foreshadowings of F. Herbert's Hellstrom's Hive, and J. Sladek's Reproductive System (q.v.).[]