Editing Erewhon (section)

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[[Agatha Christie]] references ''Erewhon'' in her novel ''[[Death on the Nile]]'' (1937).

A copy of ''Erewhon'' figures in [[Elizabeth Bowen]]'s short story "The Cat Jumps" (1934).

[[Karl Popper]]'s book ''[[The Open Society and Its Enemies]]'' (1945), includes an epigraph from ''Erewhon'' that reads, "It will be seen ... that the Erewhonians are a meek and long-suffering people easily led by the nose, and quick to offer up common sense at the shrine of logic, when a philosopher arises among them who carries them away ... by convincing them that their existing institutions are not based on the strictest principles of morality."<ref>Karl Raimund Popper, ''The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Plato. Vol. 1'', (Princeton University Press) 1971.</ref>

[[Alan M. Turing]] references ''Erewhon'' in his posthumously published paper, "Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory" (c. 1951). He writes, "At some stage therefore we should have to expect the machines to take control, in the way that is mentioned in Samuel Butler's Erewhon."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Turing |first1=Sara |title=Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1107020580 |pages=157 }}</ref>

[[Aldous Huxley]] alludes to ''Erewhon'' in his novels ''The Doors of Perception'' (1954) and ''Island'' (1962).

In his book, ''A Testament'' (1957), [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] mistakenly attributes the origin of the term [[Usonia]] as an alternate name for the [[United States of America]] to Samuel Butler in ''Erewhon''.

The "[[Butlerian Jihad]]" is the name of the crusade to wipe out "thinking machines" in the [[Frank Herbert]]'s novel, ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' (1965).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spartanideas.msu.edu/2016/03/29/8624/|title = The Butlerian Jihad and Darwin among the Machines| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805185224/http://spartanideas.msu.edu/2016/03/29/8624/ | archive-date=5 August 2021 }}</ref>

[[C. S. Lewis]] alludes to ''Erewhon'' in his essay, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment."<ref>C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper, ed. ''God in the Dock; Essays on Theology and Ethics,'' (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans) 1970. Also: C. S. Lewis, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment," ''Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy'' Vol. 13: No. 1, Article 11. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/irp/vol13/iss1/11</ref>

The movie ''[[The Day of the Dolphin]]'' (1973) features a boat named the Erewhon.{{fact|date=June 2024}}

"Erewhon" is the unofficial name US astronauts give Regan Station, a military space station in [[David Brin|David Brin's]] novel ''[[Earth (Brin novel)|Earth]]'' (1990).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/earth2.html|title=DAVID BRIN: Earth}}</ref>

In 1994, a group of ex-[[Yugoslavia]]n writers in [[Amsterdam]], who had established the [[International PEN|PEN centre of Yugoslav Writers in Exile]], published a single issue of the literary journal ''Erewhon''.<ref>''[http://www.biblio.com/slobodan-et-al-blagojevic/erewhon~1189370~title Erewhon]''; Blagojevic, Slobodan, et al.</ref>

In the graphic novel ''[[Bye Bye, Earth]]'' (2000), Belle's sword is called "Erehwon", and the story makes reference to the novel ''Erewhon''.

New Zealand sound art organization, the Audio Foundation, published in 2012 an anthology edited by [[Bruce Russell (musician)|Bruce Russell]] named ''Erewhon Calling'' after Butler's novel.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hayes|first1=Craig|title=Crooked Sounds from Aotearoa 'Erewhon Calling: Experimental Sound in New Zealand|url=https://www.popmatters.com/163769-erewhon-calling-experimental-sound-in-new-zealand-bruce-russell-edit-2495811032.html|publisher=PopMatters|date=8 October 2012|access-date=5 December 2017}}</ref>

In 2014, [[New Zealand]] artist [[Gavin Hipkins]] released his first feature film, titled ''Erewhon'' and based on Butler's book. It premiered at the [[New Zealand International Film Festival]] and the [[Edinburgh Art Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Review of 'Erewhon'|url=http://www.circuit.org.nz/blog/circuit-cast-episode-14-gavin-hipkins-kim-paton-spark-festival|website=CIRCUIT|date=19 September 2014|access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref>

In "[[Smile (Doctor Who)|Smile]]", the second episode of the 2017 season of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor and Bill explore a spaceship named ''Erehwon''. Despite the slightly different spelling, the episode writer [[Frank Cottrell-Boyce]] confirmed<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/frankcottrell_b/status/855857616358166528|title=Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Twitter|via=Twitter|access-date=2017-05-21}}</ref> that this was a reference to Butler's novel.

In the 2019 [[Ubisoft]] video game ''[[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint]]'', "Erewhon" is the name for the world's settler hideout and players' online hub.<ref>{{Citation |title=Introducing AI Teammates to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint | date=11 July 2020 | url=https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/ghost-recon/breakpoint/news-updates/16vTuHm2gwgvwpWFpzawuE/introducing-ai-teammates-to-tom-clancys-ghost-recon-breakpoint | access-date=2025-01-21}}</ref>

A copy of Erewhon figures prominently in the video for "A Barely Lit Path," the lead single from [[Oneohtrix Point Never]]'s 2023 album ''Again.''<ref>{{Citation |title=Oneohtrix Point Never – A Barely Lit Path | date=29 August 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kyFqe36BqM |access-date=2023-08-29}}</ref>