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Author: Aldous Huxley
First Published: 1932
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Science fiction
Time of Work: 632 A.F. (After Ford)
Setting: London and New Mexico
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

Bernard Marx, a citizen of the world in the year 632 a.f. (After Ford), a world in which individuality has long been forgotten, a world dehumanized and organized around the motto “Community, Identity, Stability.” Marx, born of a “prenatal bottle” instead of woman, is an anomaly in the community because too much alcohol got into his blood surrogate while he was incubating before birth. He has sensibilities, therefore, similar to those of people living during the time of Henry Ford. Marx conducts an experiment that fails: By studying a savage named...

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