Erewhon vs The Coming Race: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Utopias, Dystopian, Fiction
Erewhon
Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards…
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The Coming Race
The Coming Race, an early science-fiction work, with its superman race the Vril-ya descended from the same ancestors as the great Aryan family, from which in varied streams has flowed the dominant civilization of the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Coming Race is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 4 for Erewhon.
- The Coming Race has the widest readership — 1864 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Erewhon | The Coming Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.2 (1864) |
| Hardcover | 2.9 (11) | — |
| Apple Books | 3.0 (14) | — |
Reception
| Erewhon | The Coming Race | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 14 | 1864 |
| Editions | 338 | 262 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 3666 |
| Written reviews | — | 278 |
| Wikipedia attention | 12436 | 11261 |
| Pages | 226 | 58 |