The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

One such book is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which satirically describes a world in which gene therapy and human cloning have destroyed any sense of individuality.

Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World envisions a futuristic world in which large numbers of clones are cultivated industrially and conditioned before birth for specific castes.

" Another science fiction project associated with Scott is an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Leonardo DiCaprio potentially involved.

Related to Social SF and Soft SF are the speculative fiction branches of utopian or dystopian stories ; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, are examples.

A number of respected writers of mainstream literature have written science fiction, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

She was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents ' friendship with writer Aldous Huxley's wife, Laura Huxley.

George Orwell believed that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) must be partly derived from We.

Ayn Rand's Anthem, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano.

Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World is a more subtle and more threatening dystopia because he projected into the year 2540 industrial and social changes he perceived in 1931, leading to a fascist hierarchy of society, industrially successful by exploiting a slave class conditioned and drugged to obey and enjoy their servitude.

In Aldous Huxley's Island, in many ways a counterpoint to his better-known Brave New World, the fusion of the best parts of Buddhist philosophy and Western technology is threatened by the " invasion " of oil companies.

Pavlovian conditioning was a major theme in Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World, and also to a large degree in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.

In 1998, he had a leading role as Mustapha Mond in the made-for-television production of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

He had a central role in Brave New World, a 1998 TV-movie version of Aldous Huxley's novel where he played a character reminiscent of Spock in his philosophical balancing of unpredictable human qualities with the need for control.

* Mr. Beavis, in Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza, compares a " tingling warmth " he feels while listening to Mrs. Foxe, to reading the last scene of " Measure for Measure "

Marijuana use was associated with the subculture, and during the 1950s, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception further influenced views on drugs.

A " sexually ambivalent " young man (' Murugan Mailendra ') in Aldous Huxley's Island ( 1962 ) is likened to Antinous, and his lover Colonel Dipa ( an older man ) to Hadrian, after the narrator discovers the two are having a secret affair.

In Aldous Huxley's " Crome Yellow " Anne Wimbush is referred to as " the slim Hamadryad whose movements were like the swaying of a young tree in the wind.

Aldous Huxley's novel, " After Many a Summer Dies the Swan " was titled after a verse from the Lord Tennyson poem " Tithonus.

A fictional universe can be contained in a single work, as in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, or in serialized, series-based, open-ended or round robin-style fiction.

Poet Christopher Logue portrayed Richelieu in the Ken Russell film, The Devils ( 1971 ), based on Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun.

The legend of Mucalinda ( Muchalinda ) is prominently featured in Aldous Huxley's novel Island where it functions as a metaphor of communion between humans and nature, in opposition to the hostile / cautious view of snakes in the Western culture.

A fictional drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, Brave New World in which the population voluntarily consume Soma to dispel any anxieties or negative emotion " One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments " and also in the 1962 novel, Island.

In the 20th century, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) was the first major fictional work to anticipate the possible social consequences of reproductive technology.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is often compared to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ; both are powerful dystopian novels warning of a future world where the state machine exerts complete control over social life.

* Brave New World ( 1932 ) by Aldous Huxley

** Aldous Huxley, British writer ( Brave New World ) ( b. 1894 )

* January 30 – Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.

Blake's 7 also drew inspiration from the classic British dystopian novels Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

Aldous Huxley ’ s best-selling novel Brave New World, about a future society based on eugenics, was published in 1932.

It is again mentioned in the 1932 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

Bower's cites Aldous Huxley's Brave New World as a novel that exemplifies the science fiction novel's requirement of a "... rational, physical explanation for any unusual occurrences.

Aldous ' near-blindness disqualified him from service in the First World War.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

* Ealing and the surrounding area is mentioned in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ).

* Alphas, people of the highest intelligence ( and social strata ) in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Visually, these works relate to many concerns of the period: a perceived need for audience participation ( this relates them to the Happenings, for which the period is famous ), challenges to the notion of the mind-body duality which led some people to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs ( see Aldous Huxley's writings ); concerns with a tension between a scientific future which might be very beneficial or might lead to a nuclear war ; and fears about the loss of genuine individual experience in a Brave New World.

* In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Earth has been united into a single geopolitical entity, The World State.

In the dystopian future world of Aldus Huxley's " Brave New World ", in which Christianity was displaced by cult centered on Henry Ford, the paper is mentioned as continuing publication under the name " The Fordian Science Monitor ".

The name " Bubble Puppy " was taken from " Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy ", a fictitious children's game in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

Huxley's internationalist and conservation interests also led him, with Victor Stolan, Sir Peter Scott, Max Nicholson and Guy Mountfort, to set up the WWF ( World Wide Fund for Nature under its former name of the World Wildlife Fund ).