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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.
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.
* Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
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.
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.

Aldous and novel
* January 30 – Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.
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.
* Pala, a fictional island in Island ( novel ), by Aldous Huxley
In 1968 Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote an opera The Devils of Loudun, based on Aldous Huxley's novel and John Whithing's theatre play.
* Ape and Essence, a precursor novel by Aldous Huxley.
* In the 1932 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 2049 sees the outbreak of The Nine Years ' War, a conflict which devastates the entire planet and convinces world leaders to unite as a peaceful, but controversial, world society.
English novelist Aldous Huxley, in his last novel Island wrote that Maithuna, the Yoga of Love is ... " the same as what Roman Catholicism means by coitus reservatus.
* In the Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World, a " freemartin " ( mentioned in chapters 1, 3, 11 and 17 ) is a woman who has been deliberately made sterile by exposure to hormones during fetal development ; in the book, government policy requires freemartins to form 70 % of the female population.
The Genius and the Goddess ( 1955 ) is a novel by Aldous Huxley.
In Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World.
A similar method of conditioning children appears in Aldous Huxley's 1932 science fiction novel Brave New World.
The novel Brave New World ( 1931 ), by Aldous Huxley discussed several ways their society was effectively dumbed down to maintain stability and social order.
Aldous Huxley used the term neurotheology for the first time in the utopian novel Island.
Some aspects of the film allude to Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World.
* Limbo, a novel by Aldous Huxley

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