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The year is 2540. The motto "COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY" has defined a society. A power-hungry government dictating all life, childbirth has been replaced by cloning, children are being conditioned to indulge every whim, people are sorted into caste systems, democracy has turned into feudalism, and pharmaceutical sales are through the roof! Life expectancy has dropped to age 60, yet nobody shows any signs of aging. The wonder-drug Soma has become a necessity to negate all ill feeling. Humankind has become faceless and nameless, but a sense of individuality can still be found if you look hard enough. Set in post-apocalyptic London, Brave New World tells how all modern society has become a thing of the past. Bernard Marx, an aplha-plus psychologist with an inferiority complex, feels like an outcast with his radical thoughts of freedom. His obsession with Lenina Crowne, a very pretty beta-plus who can be very promiscious, leads to a date to the outside world where society has become very primitive. There they meet John, a son of a citizen of the brave new world who feels like an outcast in both worlds. As the three of them re-enter the new society, they have to face hardships that test the boundaries of a strict government and individuality. Brave New World is an instant classic for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or has ever tried to break free.
"A fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay." -Fourm
"It is as sparkling, as provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive as the day it was published. This in part because its prophetic voice has remained suprisingly contemporary, both in its particular 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." -Martin Green
