Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley · first published 1932

Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by the story's protagonist. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final novel, Island (1962), the utopian counterpart. This novel is often used as a companion piece or inversion counterpart to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

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Genre:

Science Fiction, Dystopian fiction, Philosophical fiction, Parody, Political fiction

Original language:

English

Year page:

1932