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==History==
The original (British edition) titled as ''The Coming Race'' was published anonymously in May 1871 by Blackwood and Sons of Edinburgh and London.<ref name=newsUK/> (Blackwood published four more 'editions' in 1871.)<ref name="editions"/> Anonymous American and Canadian editions were published in August 1871 as ''The Coming Race or The New Utopia ,'' by Francis B. Felt & Co. in New York and by Copp, Clark & Co. in Toronto, respectively.<ref name=newsUS/><ref name=newsCA/> ''[[Erewhon]]'', which was published anonymously in March 1872, was initially assumed to be a sequel to ''The Coming Race'', which by then Bulwer-Lytton was known to have written. When it was revealed that [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]] was the author of ''Erewhon'' in the 25 May 1872 issue of the ''[[Athenaeum (British magazine)|Athenaeum]]'', sales dropped by 90 percent.<ref>{{cite book | last = Redfield | first = Marc | title = Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman | url = https://archive.org/details/phantomformation0000redf | url-access = registration | publisher = Cornell University Press | date = 1996 | page = [https://archive.org/details/phantomformation0000redf/page/170 170] | isbn = 978-0-8014-3236-1}}</ref>