In 1932, Aldous Huxley published the classic Brave New World. The famous dystopian tale described a futuristic world where people are controlled by sleep learning, drugs, and conditioning. Nearly ...
The growth of dystopian fiction responds to the impact of blockbusters such as Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy (2008-10), Veronica Roth’s Divergent series (2011-13) or Lauren Oliver’s ...
Readers of Huxley’s Brave New World will find glimmers of that book’s dark humor and sterling powers of observation in this stellar 1923 lampoon of English intellectualism after WWI. Protagonist ...