Brave New World
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Brave New World is a novel by British author Aldous Huxley. It is generally regarded as dystopian science fiction in which the effects of an overemphasis on mass production and consumerism are seen. In the novel, Henry Ford is worshipped as a deity, and drug taking and free love are encouraged.[1] The last shows Huxley's insight that unfree societies tend to use sexual "freedom" to make their subjects forget that they do not enjoy true freedom. In that regard, Brave New World is a stronger and more accurate dystopian novel than 1984, which assumes the opposite.[2]
In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.[3]