I started listening to The Odyssey, the Librivox recorded version, which is the translation by one Samuel Butler. Curious about his translation, I looked him up on wikipedia, and learned about his utopian novel Erewhon, a satire from 150 years ago, in which he predicts The Singularity, that science fiction theory which I also wrote a satire about, called Renegade Robot. He wrote this book while living in New Zealand, specifically in Christchurch, where I am also going to be living later this year. All things are connected.
