A young sheep-farmer in a remote colony crosses an unclimbed mountain range and stumbles into Erewhon, a nation where the sick are tried and punished while embezzlers receive sympathetic treatment for their moral ailment. He finds Musical Banks dealing in a currency nobody spends, Colleges of Unreason, and a society that destroyed its machines in fear that they would evolve beyond human control.
A sharp Victorian satire whose Book of the Machines still reads uncannily in the age of artificial intelligence. Download the free EPUB.