Brave New World

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment. - Container.

Set in

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  London · United Kingdom
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  Eton College, Windsor · United Kingdom

  Real school, repurposed in the World State; John the Savage is toured there (Ch. 11)
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  Malpais area, west of Albuquerque, New Mexico · United States

  The Savage Reservation where John and Linda live; pueblo-culture setting
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  Iceland · Iceland

  Bernard Marx's sentence of exile from Mustapha Mond (Ch. 16)
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  Falkland Islands · Falkland Islands

  Helmholtz Watson chooses exile here for its bad climate (Ch. 16)
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