Brave New World

Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. A genius work that deals with human relations controlled by the state. In Brave New World Revisited, a series of essays, Huxley discusses his novel in relation to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Published in 1932, this novel presents a frightening vision of the future: a World State where citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, and the concept of family has been eliminated and replaced with orgies. Individuality is a crime, stability is the name of the state, and soma is the drug of choice. This chilling prophetic novel about the potential dangers of scientific advancement remains as relevant today as when it was first published.