Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London in the year 2540 CE (632 AF—“After Ford”—in the novel), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning combined profoundly to change society. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel.
In 1999 the Modern Library ranked Brave New World No. 5 on its list of the 100 Best English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century. In 2003 Robert McCrum, writing for The Observer, included Brave New World chronologically at No. 53 in “the top 100 greatest novels of all time,” and the novel was listed at No. 87 on the BBC’s survey The Big Read.
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