Book - Overv

“You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books,” World Controller Mustapha Mond tells a group of children as they tour the “Hatchery and Conditioning Center” in London in the year 2540 AD. He has a point — and if you read books like Brave New World , you’ll want to consume even less afterwards.

Published in 1932, Brave New World was decades ahead of its time, and of its sibling, 1984 , the other of two defining works outlining what a modern dystopia could look like. Unlike 1984 , however, the people in Brave New World are slaves to pleasure, not pain.