Brave New World (Audiobook) by BBC Audiobooks America, Aldous Huxley, Michael York

from dakobstah

This is one of my all-time favorite books. I was blown away by the amount of foresight that Huxley possessed. He was able to see not only futuristic scientific possibilities such as helicopters, genetically constructed humans, and something akin to anti-depressants but he was also able to see fut...

from baswood

Community Identity Stability No leisure from pleasure Was and will make me ill Ending is better than mending When the individual feels the community reels Just some of the slogans from Huxley's dystopian consumer society, from his Brave New World. Written in 1931 it was a huge leap forward from e...

from LisaMaria_C

I was struck on my recent science-fiction reading binge, how quickly that genre dates. With Brave New World I checked and rechecked the copyright date (1932) with disbelief, given it has television as a cultural force, (checking the Wiki, it says television was commercially available since the la...

from dkaul

Aldous Huxley creates a futuristic uptopian society in his novel Brave New World. In this world, clones are generated in labs and people are brainwashed to fit "perfectly" into society. Everyone is too dependent on drugs such as soma, and there is no free thought. When John the savage, a young bo...

from varwenea

Written in 1931, Brave New World is set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F.-"After Ford", as in Henry Ford, the American industrialist) exploring the impacts of reproductive technology/control, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and mental conditioning on the society. Post WWI, amidst the adv...