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** Book Title  ** : Brave New World ** Author  ** : Aldous Huxley




 * "Every one belongs to every one else." **
 * "Civilization is sterilization" **

Brave New World is a [|novel] by [|Aldous Huxley], written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in [|reproductive technology] and [|sleep-learning] that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of [|futurism]. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, [|Brave New World Revisited] (1958), and with his final work, a novel titled [|Island] (1962), both summarized below. In 1999, the [|Modern Library] ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the [|100 best English-language novels of the 20th century]. [|[1]]

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