Dec 24, 2009

Brave New World | Brave New World

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Author: Aldous Huxley
First Published: 1932
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Dystopian
Time of Work: 632 years After Ford
Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Satire, Dystopian fiction
Subjects: Values, Social issues, Future, Science or scientists, Alienation, Class consciousness, Individuality, Human race, Drugs, London, Science fiction, Southwest, Totalitarianism, Technology, Brainwashing, Bioethics
Locales: London, England, New Mexico

Places Discussed

*Great Britain. In Huxley’s dystopian future, the British Isles are part of Western Europe, one of ten administrative divisions of the world supervised by resident controllers.

Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Place where new citizens of London, the one-time capital of Britain, are produced. It has four thousand rooms. Life begins in the Fertilizing Room, after which cloned embryos are implanted in artificial wombs in the Bottling Room. Treatments administered in the Social Predestination Room determine the future status of the...

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Brave New World | Brave New World

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