![]() ![]() Full of barbed wit and malice-spiked frankness. A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance. ![]() If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice. Huxley's nightmare, set out in Brave New World, his great dystopian novel, was that we would be undone by the things that delight us ― Guardian The most prophetic book of the 20th century. Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale 'A grave warning. Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSE Welcome to New London. Read the dystopian classic that inspired the Sky TV series. Witty, thrilling and uncannily prophetic- Brave New World remains a startling warning against a future that seems eerily present already Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future. ![]()
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