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Brave new world

The author examines the prophetic fantasy of his novel "Brave New World" and compares his predictions for the future with our actual world.

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  • "The author examines the prophetic fantasy of his novel "Brave New World" and compares his predictions for the future with our actual world."@en
  • "Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse."@en
  • "Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future?where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment."@en
  • ""'Community, Identity, Stability' is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a 'Feelie, ' a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today -- let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come."--Amazon.com."
  • ""A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers. A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay. It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive as the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art. This is surely Huxley's best book"--Page 4 of cover."
  • "Six hundred years into the future, humans are bred by cloning, and "mother" and "father" are forbidden words. Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse."@en
  • "A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped."@en
  • "A satire describing a scientific and industrialized utopian world."@en
  • "A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers. A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay. It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art. This is surely Huxley's best book."
  • "Novel of soulless streamlined Eden, a shocking look at a frightening future."@en
  • "First published in 1932. First Perennial Classics edition published in 1998."
  • "A satirical novel about the Utopia of the future, when babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped."@en
  • "A satire describing a scientific and industrialized Utopian world."

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  • "Political fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Dystopias"@en
  • "Dystopias"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Utopian fiction"@en
  • "Utopias"@en
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Political fiction"@en

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  • "멋진신세계"
  • "Brave new world"@en
  • "Brave new world"
  • "Brave new world, : a novel by Aldous Huxley. With a foreward for this edition"@en
  • "Mŏtchin sinsegye"
  • "Fagre nye verden"@da
  • "Mei li xin shi jie = Brave new world"

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