In 1932, Aldous Huxley published a novel that remains one of the most highly recommended to science fiction fans. Brave New World is still considered one of the best novels ever written.
In fact, the Modern Library puts it as No. 5 on the list of the best 100 novels written, just behind Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. While it’s slightly less well-known than George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, it is considered the best because of how realistic it is to our own world.
Huxley initially wrote Brave New World as a way to poke fun at the likes of H.G. Wells and other authors who created utopian societies. The aim was to poke fun at the technological advantages, while also working in some real-life observations. However, in the end, he created a genuinely terrifying blueprint that could happen in the future, and it remains a plot that could be seen developing in today’s world.
It all comes down to mass consumerism. Huxley wrote the novel in four months while living in France, and he focused on the way of life he experienced during a trip to the United States. People needed the latest item and gadget at the time, and Henry Ford was one of those names everybody knew. In fact, it’s why Ford became a god-like figure, as people turned from religions and treated pioneers and technology creators as their gods.
ITALY – SEPTEMBER 15: Portrait of the English writer Aldous HUXLEY photographed at his sister-in-law’s house in Turin on September 15, 1958. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)When Orwell, whom Huxley had taught at Eton College in 1917, sent him his own novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the comments was about the realism of creating such a totalitarian society. Huxley was sure that beating people into submission wouldn’t quite work the way that Orwell created. Instead, people would allow themselves to be ruled if they were conditioned with pleasure and if they were given drugs to alter their state of mind.
Eventually, Huxley would U-turn on his stance, especially when it came to the use of drugs. After trying psychedelics, he realized that they would bring spiritual enlightenment rather than creating drones of people following a specific social expectation.
However, he did also note in a 1958 interview that while he set the novel seven centuries after Ford, “a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the period is that I wrote it. I often very alarmed at what has already happened in the way of the prophecies being fulfilled. And I do think that we’re moving in that direction.” He even wrote Brave New World Revisited, a non-fiction book, where he admitted that the world was moving closer to that in his original science fiction novel faster than he believed it would.
While Huxley wasn’t too worried about how banning books could affect society and learning, Brave New World was a banned book. Many worried that it would make the anti-social behavior of promiscuity and hedonistic pleasure far too appealing to younger readers, which was the warning in the 1932 novel in the first place.
There have been attempts to develop Brave New World for TV over the years. The most recent was in 2020, originally for Syfy, then it moved to USA Network, and eventually, it moved to Peacock, where it was canceled after one season.
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