Since its publication in 1932, Brave New World has been considered by many to be Aldous Huxley's greatest work. Most people think it is his only work but it is not. In that time this novel has been praised and condemned, dismissed and welcomed, a source of controversy, a subject for sermons, and required reading for many high school students and even college students. It has had twenty-seven printings in the United States. As of now three generations have read and discussed it. Aldous Huxley is a writer of science fiction, a writer of social commentary, a writer with prophetic vision, a writer with a tremendous depth of ideas, and a writer of satire.
Brave New World is a masterpiece of science fiction. Huxley has used his imagination greatly in employing existing scientific facts and theories to produce a classic. Few writers of science fiction have equaled Huxley's ability to make the unbelievable seem believable and to make the improbable seem probable. His own interest in science, its use and misuse, its peril and its promise, contributed to the accuracy of his presentation and to the horror of his envisioned utopia.
In A.F. 632, which is 632 years After Ford released the Model T, there is a World Society. People are made in bottles and conditioned to do predestined work. People have no family and marriage does not exist. People are taught to serve the production, to reach the state's motto: "Community, Identity, and Stability"
People are also made in different grades of intelligence. Bernard Marx is quite intelligent, but by an error in the Predestination Center he stayed small and weak. In this world this is unusual. Because of that he's and outcast, and is also often alone. Bernard has his own vision of Society. He will be displaced to Iceland. But before he's officially replaced he meets a pretty girl called Lenina Crowne. He takes her to a Savage Reservation where ...