Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
4/5
Harper Perennial 288 pages January 1, 1932
In Huxley's chilling vision of the future, humans are genetically engineered and socially conditioned to serve a seemingly benevolent totalitarian state. Bernard Marx begins to question his conditioning and the price of a world where everyone is happy — but no one is truly free.
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Jim has to admit — between this and 1984, it's a dystopian double feature built to keep you up at night. But where Orwell feared the stick, Huxley feared the carrot. A world where pleasure is the prison? That's diabolically clever. The writing has aged remarkably well for something published in 1932. It'll make you side-eye your smartphone in a whole new way. Four worms — unsettling in the best possible way.
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