In a future where humans are engineered and controlled by technology, society has traded individuality and emotion for stability and pleasure. Bernard Marx and John the Savage struggle to find meaning in a world designed for conformity. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a chilling and thought-provoking vision of a dystopian future that questions freedom, humanity, and the true cost of progress.
Date: 1966 (United Kingdom)
Length: ~527 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~37.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Science Fiction, Politics & Society
"The most accomplished novel Huxley has yet written" — Rebecca West, novelist and critic
"Mr. Aldous Huxley has shown his usual masterly skill in producing this result upon the reader" — Bertrand Russell, philosopher and writer
"Huxley’s Brave New World must be partly derived from it [Zamyatin’s We]. Both books deal with the rebellion of the primitive human spirit against a rationalised, mechanised, painless world" — George Orwell, author of 1984
"In the latter half of the twentieth century, two visionary books cast their shadows over our futures" — Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale
"Aldous Huxley… who had been my literary hero since Brave New World came out" — Ray Bradbury, science fiction author
"In writing Player Piano I cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We" — Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist
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