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The psychiatrist had misgivings about giving the drug to Huxley, and wrote that " I did not relish the possibility, however remote, of being the man who drove Aldous Huxley mad ," but instead found him an ideal subject.
* In March 1938, Anita Loos contacted Aldous Huxley, then recently moved to Hollywood, saying she would put him in touch with MGM for a writing contract.
Aldous Huxley spent some time here before he wrote Crome Yellow, a book which contains a ridiculous character obviously intended as a caricature of Lady Ottoline Morrell ; she never forgave him.
Modern commentators on the case, such as the author Aldous Huxley, have argued that the accusations began after Grandier refused to become the spiritual director of the convent, unaware that the Mother Superior, Sister Jeanne of the Angels, had become obsessed with him, having seen him from afar and heard of his sexual exploits.
" Later, books by Aldous Huxley, Victor Kravchenko, and Suzanne Labin (" Stalin's Russia ") convinced him to abandon communism.
This job provided the opportunity for him to create another satire: the comic Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy, a name he took from an overly-complicated children's toy in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
The Galt Company paid Aldous ' expenses ; part of its agreement with him that he would survey the new Lethbridge prairie level town site.
The characters of Loerke in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and Gombauld in Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow were based on him.

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George Orwell believed that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) must be partly derived from We.
Aldous Huxley described these self transforming amorphous shapes as like animated stained glass illuminated from light coming through the eyelids.
However, K. Čapek is comparable with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell as a speculative fiction writer, distinguishing his work from genre-specific hard science fiction.
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.
It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau, and Aldous Huxley ( uncredited ), adapted from the biography by Eve Curie.
Aldous Huxley's novel, " After Many a Summer Dies the Swan " was titled after a verse from the Lord Tennyson poem " Tithonus.
* Aldous Huxley, English author ( 1894 – 1963 ), married Maria Nys from Sint-Truiden and briefly resided on the town's central square
Aldous Huxley took the name of one of his most famous works, The Doors of Perception, from this work, which in turn also inspired American rock band The Doors ' name.
Bearing similarities to the novels Anthem by Ayn Rand and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the setting for the story is an ant colony in a park across a river from New York City, over the span of four days.
* The World State, from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The name " Bubble Puppy " was taken from " Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy ", a fictitious children's game in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Loos garnered fan letters from fellow authors William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, and Edith Wharton, among others.
The story arises from the murder of Rikaine Delmarre, a prominent " fetologist " ( fetal scientist, responsible for the operation of the planetary birthing center reminiscent of those described in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ) of Solaria, a planet politically hostile to Earth.
Although many of Bates ' patients and followers of his methods have reported of successful results, ( most famously from author Aldous Huxley ), his methods have garnered much opposition from mainstream optometry.
* Aldous Huxley drew writing inspiration from the solitude found at his Llano home.
The office of California Governor Pat Brown was flooded with appeals for clemency from noted authors and intellectuals from around the world, including Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, Norman Mailer, Dwight MacDonald, and Robert Frost, and from such other public figures as former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Christian evangelist Billy Graham.
Postman distinguishes the Orwellian vision of the future, in which totalitarian governments seize individual rights, from that offered by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, where people medicate themselves into bliss, thereby voluntarily sacrificing their rights.
As a young man, he suddenly turned from traditional Methodist Christianity to mysticism, influenced by the writings of Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley.

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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.
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.
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.
* Brave New World ( 1932 ) by Aldous Huxley
" 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.
* Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
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, British writer ( Brave New World ) ( b. 1894 )
* January 30 – Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.
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.
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.
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.
Aldous Huxley ’ s best-selling novel Brave New World, about a future society based on eugenics, was published in 1932.
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.

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