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Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Published: 1932 Narrated by: Michael York Length: 08:05 (268 pages) This is about a utopia gone wrong, where science has been twisted to an absurd extreme in an attempt to keep society happy. What makes this novel particularly interesting is how it all makes a sort of perverse sense. The obvious comparison when discussing this book is Nineteen Eighty-Four, both being dystopian futures with a brainwashed populace, and this is like the wacky uncle to that novel. It’s older, doesn’t take itself as seriously, but is clearly in the same family. How do you keep a society happy? Firstly, each citizen must be content…