Brave New World

This book is a small political essay that is just as relevant today as it was at the time of its writing (1958), some twenty-five years after the publication of Huxley’s masterpiece. What the author is trying to do here is to assess the validity of his novel’s predictions, about the socio-political......more

Authors such as George Orwell, Margaret Atwood and Aldous Huxley scare me. How can these authors who write dystopian fiction or social commentaries 30, 40, even 50 years ago be so accurate in what is going on in today's society? This book is no exception. Huxley is basically summarizing the first bo......more

The creator of one of the key dystopias (although with no less reason "Oh, brave new world" can be considered a utopia) Aldous Huxley returns to his novel. This time not as an author of fiction, but as an essayist, philosopher, futurist. He tries to predict the further development of society by anal......more

Pensaba, iluso de mi, que sería como una continuación de "un mundo feliz" y no!! es un ensayo de como podemos no estar tan lejos de dicho "Mundo feliz". En ocasiones lectura interesante pero en otras algo tediosa. Lo bueno es que no es muy largo. Sinopsis: Un mundo feliz es posiblemente la novela más l......more

= New World Revisited In this essay, Huxley updates some of the themes explored in his dystopia Brave New World and considers some other possible developments and embranchements in the future. The contents : 1) Over-Population / 2) Quantity, Quality, Morality / 3) Over-Organization / 4) Propaganda in a......more