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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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How odd for Aldous Huxley to serve as the messenger who legitimized sci-fi as a serious literary pursuit. Brave New World, written in 1931 and published the following year, was Huxley’s fifth novel. His previous work revealed a knack for satirical tales focusing on the aimlessness of “lost generation” bohemians—an unlikely apprenticeship for a would-be …

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