Aldous
Huxley
Brave
New World
Brave
New World was written in 1931 and
published in 1932.
Set
in the 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 a living embodiment of the ideals that form
the basis of futurism. Huxley answers this book with a reassessment
in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and
with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962).
Aldous
Leonard Huxley (1894 1963) was an English
writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous
Huxley family.
He
spent the later part of his life in the United States, living
in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known
for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also
published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film
stories and scripts.
Huxley
was a humanist and pacifist, but was also latterly interested
in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical
mysticism. He was also well known for advocating and taking
psychedelics.
By
the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic
circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of
the highest rank.
Source
- Wikipedia
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