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Aldous Huxley: Brave new world (2004, HarperCollins) 5 stars

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted …

Review of 'Brave new world' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I found this book to be a marvellous prediction of how our future will look like. The eugenics, indoctrination and the handing out of calming psycho-actives has merely begun in this age, so when we look a couple generations further into the abyss of the future, we might suspect mr. Huxley was right on the money. What I liked most in this read was the second part of the book, "Brave New World Revisited", where the author, after many years, reflects back on his predictions, at times explaining them while at other times updating his views.