Science Fiction · DarkIn a future where people are engineered in bottles and conditioned into castes, Bernard Marx begins to doubt
Brave New World
A future society in which people are engineered in bottles and sorted into castes
The story is set in the World State city of London in AF 632 (AD 2540). Citizens are engineered in bottles and conditioned from childhood into castes based on intelligence and labor. Among the main characters are Bernard Marx, a psychologist, Lenina Crowne, a hatchery worker, Helmholtz Watson, a lecturer and writer, John the Savage, an outsider, and Mustapha Mond, Resident World Controller of Western Europe. Chatto & Windus published it in February 1932.
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Who
Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, Helmholtz Watson, John the Savage and Mustapha Mond.
World
London in AF 632, which is AD 2540.
What makes it different
It is a dystopia in which people are produced in bottles.
Feel
Cool, ironic and unsettling.
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Further reading
- Brave New WorldWikipedia