by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley. 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 only a single individual: the story's protagonist.
reviewed Brave New World
Bernard Marx is a frustrating protagonist and I think Huxley knows it. The point is that even the dissenters are shaped by the system they're dissenting from. The Savage's arc is the one that actually hurts. A brilliant, cold novel.
reviewed Brave New World
The dystopia of comfort rather than cruelty, which makes it more disturbing than most. Huxley's vision is of a society that doesn't need to oppress people because it has made them too satisfied to resist. More relevant every year. The contrast with 1984 is worth thinking about.
Ernest Cline
