* Erewhon: or Over the Range Jonathan Cape, 1921 edition from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country.

Butler meant the title to be read as the word Nowhere backwards, even though the letters " h " and " w " are transposed, therefore Erewhon is an anagram of nowhere.

One of the country's largest sheep stations, located near where Butler lived, is named " Erewhon " in his honour.

: The author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short — thus, E-re-whon.

At first glance, Erewhon appears to be a Utopia, yet it soon becomes clear that this is far from the case.

Yet for all the failings of Erewhon, it is also clearly not a dystopia, such as that depicted by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Another feature of Erewhon is the absence of machines ; this is due to the widely shared perception by the Erewhonians that they are potentially dangerous.

Widely shared among the people of Erewhon is the belief that children choose to be born.

" " Erewhon ," in this reading, is " not only a disguised no-where but a rearranged now-here.

A reference to Erewhon and specifically " The Book of Machines " opens Miguel de Unamuno's short story, " Mecanópolis ," which tells of a man who visits a city ( called Mecanópolis ) which is inhabited solely by machines.

The title of Sir Thomas More's 1516 fictional work Utopia is a double entendre because of the pun between two Greek-derived words that would have identical pronunciation: with his spelling, it means " no place " ( as echoed later in Samuel Butler's later Erewhon ); spelled as the rare word Eutopia, it is pronounced the same by English-speaking readers, but has the meaning " good place ".

Maui's Kula district is the island's largest district, extending from dry coastal areas to the wetter high pasture lands of three major ranches ( Haleakala, Erewhon, and Ulupalakua ) that cap the region about halfway up the slopes of Haleakala.

The title is said to be " a contraction taken from Samuel Butler's The News from Nowhere ", ( although Rickard may be conflating / confusing Butler's Erewhon and William Morris < nowiki >'</ nowiki > " News from Nowhere ").

Erewhon is also the name of a novel written by Butler anonymously in 1872.

Moving southwards towards Erewhon is rejected as too dangerous as the Solarian League could see it as a threat.

: The planet Silvestria, located close to the Erewhon Wormhole Junction, is home to two low-tech warring nations.

As Samuel Butler has pointed out in Erewhon, replication of partially closed universal machine tool factories is already possible.

* One of the islanders ' name is Erewhon, which is an anagram for " nowhere.

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 – 1864 ) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island of which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement ( 1863 ).

As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

Erewhon, a novel set in New Zealand and written by Samuel Butler as a result of a stay in New Zealand, arguably belongs primarily to English literature.

* Higgs, narrator in the 1872 novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler

Mrs Grundy was eventually so well established in the public imagination that Samuel Butler, in his novel Erewhon, could refer to her in the form of an anagram ( as the goddess Ydgrun ).

* Erewhon, an 1872 novel by Samuel Butler

His grandson was Samuel Butler ( 1835 – 1902 ), noted author of the novel " Erewhon ".

Hawken took over a small retail store in Boston in 1966 called Erewhon ( after Samuel Butler's utopian novel published anonymously in 1872 ) and turned it into the Erewhon Trading Company, a natural-foods wholesaler.

Samuel Butler published Erewhon, an early science fiction novel.

Samuel Butler proposed in his 1872 novel Erewhon that machines were already capable of reproducing themselves but it was man who made them do so, and added that " machines which reproduce machinery do not reproduce machines after their own kind ".

* Rangitata River-The location of the Erewhon sheep station, named by Butler who was the first white settler in the area and lived at the Mesopotamia Sheep Station.

* Erewhon ( 1872 ) by Samuel Butler, constitute a satiric romp through a hidden utopia ( with dystopian elements ) in the Southern Alps, New Zealand.

Erewhon was named by Samuel Butler who was the first white settler to live at the Mesopotamia sheep station.

Butler's life has been published by his grandson Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon ( Life and Letters of Dr Samuel Butler, 1896 ); see also Baker's History of St John's College, Cambridge ( ed.

Also, prose by: Sir Max Beerbohm-Samuel Erewhon Butler-Hubert Crackanthorpe-Richard Garnett-Sir W. S. Gilbert-George Gissing-Walter Pater-Richard Jefferies-Rudyard Kipling-George Moore-Arthur Morrison-Olive Schreiner-Robert Louis Stevenson-H. G. Wells

A war by proxy between both Silvestrian nations break out, with the Canmore Republic receiving support from Manticore and Erewhon, and the Kingdom of Chuiban being assisted by Havenite forces.

" It could also refer to Erewhon is also a book by Samuel Butler, which features Erewhon, a fictional country that seems like a utopia, much like the island the orphans and Olaf land on.

Later examples can be seen in Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia and Samuel Butler's Erewhon, which uses an anagram of " nowhere " as its title.

Samuel Butler's Erewhon can be seen as a dystopia because of the way sick people are punished as criminals while thieves are cured in hospitals, which the inhabitants of Erewhon see as natural and right, i. e. utopian ( as mocked in Voltaire's Candide ).

Herbert may have coined the name from 19th-century author Samuel Butler, who has the citizens of Erewhon enact a prohibition on machines newer than 270 years fearing that " it was the race of the intelligent machines and not the race of men which would be the next step in evolution.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Henry Festing Jones, Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon ( 1835 – 1902 )-A Memoir

* Samuel Butler ( novelist ) ( 1835 – 1902 ), grandson of the scholar, author of Erewhon

This would counter Samuel Butler's Evolution Old and New in which the previously supportive, though unscientific, author of Erewhon had turned against Darwinism, and he sent a copy of it to Krause.