Brave New World
Aldous Huxley • 1932
Devastation Rating
dystopian philosophical literary fiction political
Our Take
Huxley's nightmare is not the boot on the face but the soma tablet willingly swallowed. A world designed for comfort, with suffering designed out along with meaning. John the Savage is destroyed not by the World State's cruelty but its indifference — and that may be the more accurate dystopia.
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