The novel is often compared to George Orwell's 1884.īrave New World has frequently been banned and challenged since its original publication. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final novel, Island (1962), the utopian counterpart. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society that is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist. Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published a year later.
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