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Oct2020 BotM Poll - Proto SF, pre 1920
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alexandr Bogdanov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Francis Stevens
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alexandr Bogdanov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Francis Stevens
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      Aug 16, 2020 11:45AM
    
    
      Erewhon has been mentioned several times in the current book I'm reading Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. Apparently Alan Turning referenced it in a 1950 paper on AI too, so I'm voting for it, although I like several of the others as well.
    
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      All these choices sound interesting in one way or another.
I've read Erewhon Revisited, but not Erewhon itself. Not very enthusiastic about it because he isn't a great writer.
Likewise, Bulwer-Lytton has such a bad reputation as a writer that there is a dishonarable writing prize named after him. Nonetheless, the "Vril" in that story was influential.
  
  
  I've read Erewhon Revisited, but not Erewhon itself. Not very enthusiastic about it because he isn't a great writer.
Likewise, Bulwer-Lytton has such a bad reputation as a writer that there is a dishonarable writing prize named after him. Nonetheless, the "Vril" in that story was influential.



























